It's me. I'm the thing that needs to be fixed. I'm the thing that needs to be handled. I'm the scandal. And the best way to deal with a scandal is to shut it down.

Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

I think life is about falling in love with the right person, shopping, eating our favorite desserts and traveling a lot.

I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of my sister, Joan Fontaine ... and I appreciate the many kind expressions of sympathy that we have received.

Let me hear your body talk.

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.

Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.

I don’t want normal and easy and simple. I want painful, difficult, devastating, life-changing, extraordinary love.

Know what the best thing about insomnia is? That I get to stay up all night figuring it out.

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

Negative thinking is based on complexes

Emotionally intelligent people think before they speak and exercise discretion.

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

Probably though, by the time I was 17, I already knew that I was probably going to go into film

For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me.

Being sober for so many years is getting interesting.

Some people leave, yeah, and it sucks. But some people don't leave, and they never will. And sometimes people are there, but you just can't see them. But they're still there.

One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.

The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.