The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.

If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

(The raindrops) played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow.

We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together.

Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.

The world is Trouble...and Grace. That is all there is.

She came over and looked at the picture. Then she took my hand. You know what that feels like? Like what the astronauts will feel when they step onto the moon for the very first time.

Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.

Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.

Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.

I think I'm going through a bit of ADD. I'm reading 3 books simultaneously and it's something that I don't recommend. It's like watching TV with two others who keep changing the channels...

On the sound of handcuffs--"For me it's the sound of all light and hope crashing down on a minority.

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

I'm really not interested in showing me or playing me. My gift as an actor, given to me, is to be able to become other people.

The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.

I think my guideline has been to find things that inspire me. And as long as I stick to that, I don't think I'll have any problems crossing over to becoming an adult actress.

Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running.

When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

I'm always having to check myself and make sure I'm not over singing in some ensemble thing that will render me unavailable for participation in the stuff where it really counts.

l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake.