Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was going past the road on my house. And so, these cars began to surveil me. People began to follow me around, and it did, it was very disrupting to think that your privacy was being violated, and for no reason that I could come up with.

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.

Old as she was she still missed her daddy sometimes.

Contempt mates well with pity.

Spoiled. That's all it's about can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it.

I knew I was good because I was the only 14-year-old who could dunk backward.

I would just stand there puzzled, then realize this would be a great place to make a show.

I don't think any studio - it was a long shot at the time - but I don't think any studio in a million years would make 'Thelma and Louise' right now. But there's so many other kinds of movies they won't make right now.

I had to wait my turn. I had to learn that even when you're sitting behind somebody, you still have a chance to learn something every single day.

I ask everyone's opinion when they don't speak up. And then when they have an opinion, I'll ask others to talk about it.

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.

Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought, 'This guy is very cool.' I wanted to be like him when I was a kid.

Ever since I was little, my mum used to choose an outfit for me and lay it on the bed so I'd know what I was wearing the next day. I never went to a uniformed school, so I always had an outfit - and I never really grew out of that, I don't think.

People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.

Geoff Leonard knows more about me than I know myself.

There aren't as many roles for people who look like me, and it was always complicated when it came to casting my parents. But now I couldn't be more grateful that I have a different look.

I just look at what's going on in the world.

I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a record shop. Still, it's not a bad life, is it? You just sit at a computer and make stuff up.

I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.

We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we've managed over more than two centuries to create a way of life that allows for a reasonable degree of upward mobility, that prizes individual liberty, promotes freedom of religion and genuinely values equal rights for all citizens.

The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the plans to have more of an impact, which is the promise of engagement.

Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.

People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.

I try as much as possible to give you a great basic product and what comes out, I feel, is really amazing.

There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout.

You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.

The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free.