The idyllic mayhem of two cultures colliding just doesn't seem as funny anymore.

See, that's the thing about L.A.- When you've mastered the art of feeling lonely in a room full of people, that's when you know.

In Los Angeles, everything is 100 percent organic, except the people.

And, to be honest, if weed is a gateway drug, then I really did hop the fence, but sometimes I can't help but miss the sticky-sweet warmth of a good old fashioned hot box.

A bag of bones can slip through small cracks in a crowd effortlessly.

In the movies, God is an actor just like everyone else.

If I told you that I imagine love to be a two-way mirror, which side of the mirror would you imagine me standing on?

Beauty is biased, brainless. It says little to nothing about anybody as far as ethics are concerned, so why not monetize it? Give it some value, pin it with a price point. Otherwise, it’s worthless.

I haven’t felt the full weightof the world on my shoulders, and I haven’t experienceda fraction of the painand embarrassment I’ve put out into this great bigwhite world.

I think of drug dealers like I think of my father— never really there when you want them to be.

I've come to realize that hunger feels more like home than any tangible structure ever has, or probably ever will. I know now that creating absence is my way of coping with absence.

Failure is a fundamental piece of success.

The soul is sustained by spirituality.

There are no prizes for defying yourself.

Just write it, Because it is the next best thing of the world.

Once you find love, you find it. There isn't an age on love.

The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.

People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.

I grew up as a child actress, not a child star. I was an actress - big difference.

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.

Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism.