If you want something bad enough the whole world conspires to help you get it.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

Obsession is the evil genie who turns pleasure into pain.

The woman you thought you talked to was like one out of my novels, nothing more than a dream, and illusion I conjured to feel better. That’s all I ever will be, unable to be that woman in real life.

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

I'm a complete supporter of Obama and kind of in love with him.

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity

My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.

The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability. And that has a lot to do with trust.

O Lord Eternal, move and govern my tongue to speak the truth.

Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater