I was always a self-conscious person.

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Wonder is our need today, not information.

Grow past your past and march past the flag of the past!

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day.

The American crow is at an all-time low of 82 birds. Others hit by the West Nile, like the black-capped chickadee, have rebounded.

Wayne was one of the worst drivers Finn had ever met. The bus nearly sideswiped two cars, then veered left and scraped its wheels against the curb, before smashing back down the roadway.

I don't want to tell them what to take away from a movie, I think a movie should tell that.

I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.

Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.

Admire? No, I have never said that. I still appreciate Angela Merkel as a very professional and open person.