I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

To talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

When you lead a normal life, you aren't aware of how you affect people.

When we scream and shout inside our heart, deep silence prevails outside and often we are mistaken to be snobbish.

I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It's just another form of conservative fear that promotes ignorance more than anything else.

Remember dont waste time comparing your life to others who seem more fortunate. Being fortunate is based on how much peace you have not how many luxuries or conveniences you have. Practice from the heart to make peace with what is.

I've only seen a couple horror movies in my lifetime. I don't like the ones that make you scream out in terror.

One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.

America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff.

My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.

A child can escape the shadows.

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.

I'm a bit of a rebel, and I always will be.

Every new car, you open the door, and you look at all those internal mellifluous swoopy bits, and they have no meaning.

I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act would expand research on embryonic stem cells by increasing the number of lines stem cells that would be eligible for federally funded research.

I've never been afraid to fail.

I used to not even be able to order pizza on the phone because I was just so shy. I think that's why so much comes out on-screen: because that's my time to let go in a safe place. When you're doing that, it's all written down on paper, and it's total fiction.

All my friends are female, I've edited for a magazine for young girls for 15 years, I relate to women, and I'm very, very close to my younger sister.

Money never made me.

Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

In 'Seesaw,' I played Gittel Mosca, and because it was a musical, I loved it more because I was able to do anything. I was able to use all parts of me that I don't get to use... the comedy and the singing and the dancing.

If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It's not a miracle potion, but little by little you can solve problems in the basement of a country, not on the surface.

I'm very committed to and interested in CNN's journalism and our magazines and our movie studio, not just HBO, where I grew up. But I do have a fondness for subscription television.