Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles.

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.

Everyday is a good day, just some days are better

In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.

I thought Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful woman in the world and Elizabeth Taylor breathtaking. But when I see myself on the screen I say: 'Oh shoot! What are they talking about?'

I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.

Cancer is my own private war. The strain, the nausea, the fever take turns challenging my strength, my mind and my spirit.

Looking a certain way is a blessing and a curse.

I like it when you're under the ocean, and all you can feel is calm

I deeply believe in one's own positive will to overcome even the most daunting challenges.

It takes a very great intelligence to breathe logical meaning into meaningless ideas.

The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.

He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

When systems come to be far from points of equilibrium, they reach bifurcation points, wherein multiple, as opposed to unique, solutions, to instability become possible.

A person always has a chance to protest this or that.

All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once.

When I set out to write, I want to write something that will rip your heart out.

An intellectual hate is the worst.