Don’t worry if you fall, sweet girl. Youth is made for bruises.

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.

I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house, all those things no widow will tell you ever crossed her mind.

All I cared about that summer were suntans, beaches, boys and booze.

She fantasized sometimes too about killing him a little: a little poison in his pudding, a little flick-flick-flick with a fillet knife at his throat.

Her mother always told her, “If he hits you, then you leave, ” but Jack had never hit her, not with his fists.

It wasn’t as if she’d thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn’t always what they needed, and what a person needed might be the last thing they could ever want.

Music is essentially useless, as life is.

Check out the helmet hair on Randy Moss, babe! He looks like some freakish anti-Mr. T after a long evening sleeping through 'Aida.'

I don't train to look good in the mirror. I train to make improvements in my game.

The U.S. had about 10,000 nuclear warheads. It is estimated that the U.S. is heading towards having 6,000 nuclear warheads in the year 2012.

[Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors?... Why shouldn't executions be public?

As an actress, you get to basically be your character.

I'm very rarely in the gym. My workouts are predominantly outside, in nature.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

One of the most important things in politics is you've got to keep your mind infinitely curious and alive to what is happening differently.

Refreshing honesty has been getting me in trouble since I was five, but it's probably had some positive effects - like not being a liar.