Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important.

I love to act, I've always wanted to be an actor. I think that acting and fiction go nicely together - being able to visualize language as something you perform, not just something that's there on the page.

I was really not a good student, and I felt that shame every day. That's one of the reasons I started smoking pot and drinking daily.

The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. Theres never a need to feel lost anymore.

Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked in obstinate despair: It is. And if it's not, I will love it all the more. I will love it to the point where it becomes mine again.

She was clothed entirely in two large swatches of leather, the leather fake and shiny in a self-mocking way, absolutely correct for 1993, the first year when mocking the mainstream had become the mainstream.

I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated.