Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.

What you can't run away from, you have to face

Are you listening, little bird?

If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.

That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

He stared at his hot chocolate like it held the secret to the universe.

I can hear only the sounds of love all around me. I love all of the beauty—all of the things I can feel and see.

The truly unsettling thing about being a woman was needing a man to realise one's full potential

I'm a big believer that Marilyn Monroe was killed.

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

Whatever happens, you can always make it back somehow!

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.

If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.

All I was trying to do was get home from work.

America's government has to get the public investments right.