I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently.

All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.

Ideally, I'm also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again.

I am the shortest and least funny person in my family.

I'm not the beautiful one.

I get sidetracked very easily.

I’m afraid to close my eyes, I’m afraid to open them

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...

Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there.

Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.

Never give up, no, never give up If you're looking for something easy You might as well give it up.

I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die for one reason, for being Jewish, that's all.

It's interesting to me that I get cast as mothers and really maternal, sweet, nice people... Maybe I have a vulnerability or something; maybe that's what it is.

When you are able to love someone unconditionally , without reason, you can begin to understand God's unconditional love for you.

I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

My ex-wife is a water sign and I'm an earth sign. Together we made mud.

They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?