I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.

It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.

There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.

I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!

I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.

I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.

If you get old fashioned enough, you'll always be in style.

Knowing when it is over is the beginning of a new life and the end of an old one.

When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime.

I fell in love with Norman Mailer's 'Of a Fire on the Moon', a description of the 1969 moon landing and the society that had produced NASA - and was inspired by him to begin a kind of anthropology of modern life.

One of the most rebellious things a woman can do is allow people to think she's mean.

The primary job for women in Hollywood is still super-attractive actress. That is the most high-profile women's job in Hollywood.

I wasn't even prepared to be an actress. I was 17 when I came out of high school, and suddenly became Miss World and then I became an actress.

As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.

One thing most people would agree is that climate change would add further uncertainties to our already quite tight water supply situation in China.

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars', I'd wind up owing them money.

Well, when we made 'Tron' there was no internet, no cellphones.

I want to set up orphanages for underprivileged and abused children.

The master's eye is the best fertilizer.

I think of myself as a funny guy but nobody thinks I'm funnier than my daughters.

When I was 12, I wanted to learn how to play the guitar, and I found a chord book in a shop, and I stuffed it down my trousers. And that's how I learned to play the guitar.

My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.

The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it.

It's near impossible to always be right when you're innovating. It's easy to get emotionally invested in it, but you need to monitor its impact like a hawk and react if you don't like what you see. And if/when you pull it back, you want to do that communication with transparency and humility.

It's the governments that create the problems. People are fun; people get along. People in Iran really love Americans. There is no problem between us.

It smote me to the heart that I had found no one in all the world who loved me more than all others.