I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.

I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Its hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

The very heart of yoga practice is abhyasa, steady effort in the direction you want to go.

A few years ago, I lost 30 pounds, and people still wanted to criticize. And honestly, I'm happy with myself if I'm a little heavier.

I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon.

My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father.

They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone.

Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.

My depression is not something very special. A lot of people go through depression. My divorce is not something very special; a lot of people go through divorce.

We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.

We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.

I grew up two train stops from where A Tribe Called Quest grew up, and one stop from Nas.

Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.

The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.

My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.

Even the most obscure hermit in the forest was not utterly alone; he too was enfolded in belonging.

The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.

I love emotional, intense stuff; it's easier to grab onto than just being simple. Being simple and relaxed can be the hardest thing. It can be easier to get your hooks into something big.

I was the oldest of seven kids, so I had no older brother who would say, 'Schmuck, don't do that.'

I don't think I should have been married... to anybody.

For a bill to become law, it truly has to be the will of the people, and for a president to stop the will of the people and stop what you're trying to do in your state is not the role of Washington.

'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul.

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

It's hard for me to get interested in stories that ignore death, which is what American marketing culture would like to do: pretend that death doesn't exist, that you can buy immortality; just buy these products, and you'll be forever young and happy.

It's very tough when two creative people are together.

But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.

In the past I would self destruct when it came to love - I was immature, throwing myself into things but now times have changed, I want a relationship where you understand the other person.