Agora, vivo num planeta dolorido, transparente como o gelo. É como se houvesse aprendido tudo de uma vez, numa questão de segundos. Minhas amigas e colegas tornaram-se mulheres lentamente. Eu envelheci em instantes e agora tudo está embotado e plano. Sei que não há nada escondido; se houvesse, eu veria.

Pés, para que os quero, se tenho asas para voar.

Isolar-se no próprio sofrimento é permitir que ele destrua o interior.

No dia a dia suporto muito mais do que imagino.

Nada é definitivo. Tudo muda tudo se move, tudo gira, tudo voa e desaparece.

Cada tic-tac é mais um segundo da vida que passou. Fugiu e não voltará. E já que a vida é intensa e com tantos interesses, o problema é descobrir como vivê-la.

O que não me mata me alimenta.

Não creio que as margens de um rio sofram por deixá-lo correr.

A beleza e a feiura são miragens. Através delas os outros podem ver o nosso interior.

Escolha uma pessoa que olhe você com magia.

Se eu pudesse lhe dar alguma coisa na vida, eu lhe daria a capacidade de ver a si mesmo através dos meus olhos. Só então você perceberia como é especial para mim.

Eu sou a desintegração.

Amuralhar o próprio sofrimento é arriscar que ele te devore a partir do teu interior.

Bebia para afogar as mágoas, mas as malditas aprenderam a nadar.

Pinto a mim mesma porque sou sozinha e porque sou o assunto que conheço melhor.

(E o que mais dói) é viver num corpo que é o sepulcro que nos aprisiona (segundo Platão), do mesmo modo como a concha aprisiona a ostra.

Espero que a partida seja feliz e espero nunca mais voltar.

Se existe vida após a morte, não me esperem, porque eu não vou.

Diego, houve dois grandes acidentes na minha vida: o bonde e você. Você, sem dúvida, foi o pior deles.

Pensaram que eu era surrealista, mas nunca fui. Nunca pintei sonhos, só pintei a minha própria realidade.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Both on an individual and a national scale, debt imprisons.

It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

I've been tiny since I was four, and I eat whatever I want.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking risks in storytelling and programming. I try very hard to avoid the expected.

Nicknames are the most essential in life, more valuable than names.

I think that people will always want music; I think that the form that they will get it in, or distributed to them from, and the price they pay for it is what's up in question.

I don't want to sound like a grumpy old man, but nothing winds me up more than people saying, 'Chill out' to me when I'm irritated!

By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot. Hats had been in competition with hair, and hair had won. Thirty years before that, Brits of all classes and ages wore hats all the time.

Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.

There is good in everything, if only we look for it.?

But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.

Optimism is a cure for many things.

We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success.

When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.

We should be working with the governor of Sonora to establish a commercial sea port on the coast of their state.

I once spent an entire night in a hotel in New York looking across the way into someone's apartment where nothing was happening but daily life, a phone call, television watching, staring into the fridge. Seeing how those strangers lived over that small distance and in absolute silence moved me deeply.

In September 2008, the two largest housing mortgage companies called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were government-sponsored enterprises, which hold hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgages, because of the losses they took on the mortgages, they essentially became insolvent, and the government had to take them over.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality.