We're playing strip billiards.

I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.

We're playing strip billiards.

You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.

There was really nothing shocking in what Brigitte did, what was provocative was her natural sensuality.

I shudder at the image they would piece together.

Although the world is full of suffering it is full also of the overcoming of it.

And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to.

Credentials are critical if you want to do something professional. If you want to become a doctor or lawyer or teacher or professor, there is a credentialing process. But there are a lot of other things where it's not clear they're that important.

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

Everything in food works together to create health or disease.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

When will they make a tractor that can furnish the manure for farm fields and produce a baby tractor every spring?

The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.

When my body is covered and disappears, it's not about the relationship between me and the wall, but the relationship between me as an individual and those slogans which are used to fool the public.

If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

I want to work with Cherry Jones.

I don't think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, there is where the artistry lies!!

I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.

And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Nike doesn't want to make products for everyone - they want to make products for champions.

Be honest, be kind, and share the love.

The aging of the U.S. population is a theme that we believe strongly in and the health care sector is really right in the bulls eye of this particular theme.

My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air.

A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.

I studied at a time when buildings were sterile things, and their creators were hands-off people - super-intelligent people, but you felt they didn't love the stuff buildings are made from.

I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.