The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie. It was Bambi. When that little deer gets caught in a forest fire, I was terrified, but I was also exhilarated.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

True Leaders take an Ordinary Person and turn them into an Extraordinary Performer.

Bridge miscommunications by talking to parents, hearing their stories, and learning how they’ve shaped yours.

Oh, you’re hardly one to talk. Look where ogling a man got you.

influence flows across networks up to three degrees away. What your friends’ friends eat or do or think will influence what you eat or do or think—but further connections will not.

I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of discovery, the improvising.

I think that as a society as well, we need to be smart about what technologies we take up and how construe progress.

Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.

The nurse of infidelity is sensuality.

even The bed of love, that in the imagination Had seemed to be the giver of all peace, Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting, And as soon finished.

But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe; The effect of laziness, or sottish write.