I would say at the moment the only person who could have played me this past year would have to be Angelina Jolie.

Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always loved damaged monuments, in architecture and in humans.

Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.

But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

I'm in love with someone good and kind and gentle, and he's seen the darkness too, but somehow we've become each other's light.

He was only twenty-five.He was young enough to miss his youth just as it was slipping away. The worst kind of loss-the one that is happening as you feel it.

It's all in her walk, a cartoon swagger. Part Jayne Mansfield, part Muhammad Ali. Men never know if it's an invitation upstairs or an invitation outside.

If killing yourself is not an option anymore, you have to sink into the darkness instead, and make something out of it.

We intersect. He says he thanks every star that we existed on the same celestial plain. But here we are on earth, dirty, well used, a man-made throughway for intersecting dreams.

I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.

When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a shock to the system to be desired after feeling so completely abandoned.

If you have to ask what jazz is you will never know." Louis Armstrong

I do know the difference between right and wrong, but I just like the way wrong feels. It's an impulse, an urge more intense than anything else.

When you don't find a way... don't wait every time for others, Sometimes you have to be your own angel.

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.

He (Frank Robinson as Manager) can step on your shoes, but he doesn't mess up your shine.

But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.

People ask me, 'Did the fame come too fast? Do you ever wish for your old life?' I always tell them that there's nothing on earth better than being famous.