I think all of us have our inner 13-year-old a lot closer to the surface than we're willing to admit even to ourselves.

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places.

I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.

I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me.

My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.

I mean, the men in Hollywood event is every day - it's called Hollywood.

I will tell you what I can't abide - and I think the Internet has really created a space for it - women criticizing other women and mothers criticizing other mothers.

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.

The outside world can be very tough.

Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think the same could be said for time.

Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.

Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.

I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.

Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown.

My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front.

In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.

Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.

I'm basically a sexless geek. Look at me, I have pasty-white skin, I have acne scars and I'm five-foot-nothing. Does that sound like a real sexual dynamo to you?

Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature.