Marriage, my dear, is not suicide.

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.

All I hear is my own grating thoughts. Is there anything more horrid than being trapped inside yourself with nothing but your own insecurities.

Great love endures time, heartache, and distance. And even when all seems lost, true love lives on.

The stars have their own language, you know. If you're careful, you can learn it.

I'm no longer willing to let myself down.

You can never play a part in life, especially not in love.

I am lonely here sometimes. I'm like the gate, swinging in the breeze when I long for someone to just secure the latch and stop me from flailing about

I walked to the bookcase and examined the storybooks inside. As a girl, I had dreamed of having stacks of books at my disposal--stories to get lost in, other worlds to live in when mine was so bleak.

We want the kind of love that sells movie tickets.

I want the pictures to be working in both directions. I accept that they speak about me, and yet at the same time, I want and expect them to function in terms of the viewer and their experience.

The darkest moments for me weren't necessarily winding up in the hospital or anything like that. It was those quiet moments alone when I just hated the person I had become.

I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now.

I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.

Once an actress always an actress.

I am Presbyterian and Protestant. I've had great relationships and developed even greater relationships with ministers. We have tremendous support from the clergy.

All who surrender will be spared; whoever does not surrender but opposes with struggle and dissension, shall be annihilated.

Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it?

Many with trust, with doubt few, are undone.