You keep learning how to let go and to live the life that you actually have, as opposed to the life you thought you were going to have.

We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.

I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.

I like movies about women behaving badly, because women behave badly just like men, and we're not always adorable and cute about it.

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

I like things that look like mistakes.

Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them - they'll tell you who they are and what they're up to.

I’m not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don’t need a romance to complete a story about a woman

I feel like most people aren't either/or, they're both/and. You're both magnanimous and petty. You're both kind and cruel. You're never just one thing.

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

You feel sadness for time passing. New York is a city that keeps reinventing itself, and I love it so much.

The most valuable lessons in life do not come when you are walking or running. They come when you fall down. You better take them and rise up!

Action is always superior to speech in the Gospels, which is why the Word became flesh and not newsprint.

He fought to destroy those monsters, yet found they never seemed to die—rising anew every dawn.

It's the augmented fourth, or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life.

Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?

I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.

I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.

I have no idea what's coming next or where it will come from; I enjoy the surprise of it all.

The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things.