You can’t mind these things, you just can’t, for to dislike what makes a person human is to dislike all humans.

The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie.

He thought she knew what he meant, but the biggest mistake you can make is thinking they know what you mean.

She was all the world’s money, and I would spend it with her, my sharpest friend who changed the tide, my only comfort from the brutal gamble of the world and the wicked ways of men.

In arguing, what people lack in intellect they usually make up for in name-calling.

I started my career as a swimsuit model. My first big break in America was 2007, 'Sports Illustrated' Swimsuit Issue.

Of course, any movie that I make, that is released everywhere, gets a lot of exposure.

No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.

I especially cannot imagine anyone who grew up during the Cold War era listening to Donald Trump and saying, you know what, that's a guy that I want to support. It makes zero sense.

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

Modesty died when clothes were born.

Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative, accessible and acceptable to oneself.