New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

Everyone has something dark in their past. I suppose it's our job to overcome it. And if we can't overcome it, then all we can do is make the most of it.

Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

When it comes to disputes before the World Trade Organization, we generally win.

I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth.

No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.

Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.

To attract something that you want, become as joyful as you think that thing would make you.

One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

There are no secrets on an successful software project. Both good and bad news must be able to move up and down the ptoject hierarchy without restriction.