Imperfection is an end. Perfection is only an aim.

The best thing about being dead is you no longer have to say 'I wish I were dead.' The best thing about being alive is that you can still say 'I wish I were dead'

There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.

How do you knowyou're a girl?I'm wearing a frock.And if you take it off?I get cold, so I putit back on.If I was a boy, I don't know what I'd do.

A burnt and experienced hands are more important than the vessels in the kitchen.

We are as happy as we think we are.

Peering, I heard the hooves come down the hill. The posse passed, twelve horse; the leader's face Was worn as limestone on an ancient sill.

I know I'm stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better.

Describe your perfect man who looks like me.

Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.

The more we deploy the technologies to capture wind and solar power, the cheaper those technologies become.

It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I've made, I say to myself, 'Oh God, why did I do this?' and 'Why didn't I change that?' and things like that.

A coerced "choice" does not reflect virtue, only compliance.