Acting is, to me now, artificial. Seeing people suffer is real. It couldn't be more real. Some people don't like to look at it in the face because it's painful. But if nobody does, then nothing gets done.

The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.

I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being - to prove that we are a human race, to prove that our love outweighs our need to hate, that our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame.

I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people's ideas and thoughts and words, because I'm very independent and, I guess, a free thinker.

People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.

Look, sweetheart, I can drink you under any goddamn table you want, so don't worry about me.

How can money be the root of all evil when shopping is the cure for all sadness?