Everybody is talking and everybody is trying to block things out, but eventually you just yell, "Action!," everybody starts moving, the camera starts going, and you get a take.

I do tend to have characters that I guess are in some way loners or dealing with obstacles that they have to confront that ultimately make them a better person in a way.

Silence is never an admission. We learn that in law school.

Two hundred years after Euro-Americans "discovered" it, America's river west begins and ends at pollution.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.

I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.

I wish I could pass my life at the foot of the holy tabernacles in which our adorable Saviour dwells.

Sociology isthescience of talk, and there is onlyone law in sociology. Bad talk drives out good.

Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.

I ain't a new artist, I'm good in the studio, I don't need somebody to hold my hand in the studio. I don't even really want them all over my album or anything like that.

He who is or has been deeply hurt has a RIGHT to be sure he is LOVED.

All your dreams are made / When you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade