I like to be fragile. I like that. I try to be close to that energy and sensibility.

I think it's harder to learn a language without having a goal.

It's weird how you can learn something incorrectly.

Fame is O.K. I hate it, but it's O.K. I'm beginning to understand how I can be hidden. It's an attitude.

I know more English than Spanish, but I'm always a little embarrassed.

I wasn't sure I wanted to be an actor.

I really like acting in English.

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.

The world will be saved by the western woman.

Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.

Sweet Phosphor, bring the dayWhose conquering rayMay chase these fogs;Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!Light will repayThe wrongs of night;Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!

If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.

You have to observe a few simple rules in dressing, which are really not rules; it's just being appropriate. If you're 70 and want to wear miniskirts, 70-year-old knees ain't pretty!

Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.

People must be able to use their voice, tell their stories, have their experiences recognized and their voices heard.

Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.