There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

Life is about happiness—not about success.

What one heart finds in Him is so different than what another discovers, yet none less true.

She consumes me with her eyes, her fiery touch, and the ways in which she loves me.

I'm very selfish! I'm only thinking about how I would look in clothes, and not how we as a society might appear in those clothes.

What's done can't be undone, but at least you can keep it from happening again.

If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.

A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.

I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.

The cooking side is the easier way to be creative. On the policy side, it's harder to think of new approaches to problems.

I tell you what's really ridiculous--going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like you're already dead.