Screenwriters get paid a hell of a lot more money but their level of frustration seems to be so high that I don't want that.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

Killing people in the name of religion does not make it religious.

I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners take possession, no matter how many times we pint over it.

We stand not as victims, but rather to bear witness to the gender injustices present in our lives and in our world as a whole.

Address the people you seek, and them only

It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly.

Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

Design is important because chaos is so hard.

Yeah, tell me I'm a bottle of single malt scotch, she thought. That's the way to my heart.

I'm trying to make it cool to be a good girl.

It's going to be very interesting to see somebody playing me.