We just need a strong female perspective, especially in the world now...when the degrading of women has become such a popular thing.

I'm most alive when I'm on set. Whether I'm imagining it on my head, I know what I want to capture.

History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.

Farmers facing lower prices have only one option if they want to be able to maintain their standard of living, pay their bills, and service their debt, and that is to produce more [corn]

A winner rebukes and forgives a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

I tended to write the book in these bursts of two or three months at a time. So I would know, or at least feel securely, that for the next few months I was at least going to have a few hours a day.

Like a robe wears out over time and turns to rags, life wears out from day to day, from second to second.

Man maketh a death which Nature never made.

I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff, at my best value.

Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!

Accents. I'm very good with accents. I'm exceedingly good.