It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.

And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.

I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

Water for me is so essential, like swimming.

Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

I dislike PASSION FLOWER HOTEL so much I wish I had the money to buy it up and burn it.

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

I live for being with the people I love and to live as happily as possible.

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.

Honesty is the only way to fight the inner demons.

It is only reasonable that our laws do not force our country to provide safe harbor to those individuals that are being sought out by their governments due to their terrorist ties.

People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.

Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.

I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!

I wondered what it would be like to die. Was it like going to sleep or like waking up? Was there no more time? Or did time go on forever?

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

It is ridiculous ever to forget that you and your business are each implanted in the society of the moment. We cannot ignore the world of our time. We had better understand it.

They say things happen in three. I won with the great Kobe, the great D-Wade and now it's my job to win one with the great LeBron James. We have everything in place. We just got to get it done.

I like the transience of Klimt paintings.