I think my comparison with Shane would be a loner. I always got the impression that she wasn't scared to be alone. She enjoys it. I can relate to that.

I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now.

My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it.

I'm not thrilled that I have a tramp stamp. When you see people bend over in their really low-cut jeans, I'm like, 'Oh... that's what I have.

Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.

I like stories that are not normal, everyday lives. I don't personally seek them out, but they find me.

The grass withers, the flower fades, but Cosmic Ordering stands forever.

Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.

The press exerts the pressure of dissent on officials otherwise inclined to rest content with the congratulations of their retainers.

To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.

No matter how grim things may seem, they always get better.

People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.

There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule].

A hundred thousand welcomes: I could weep, And I could laugh; I am light and heavy: Welcome.