All nights are sacred nights to make confession and resolve and prayer; all days are sacred days to wake new gladness in the sunny air.

Women who say it's not O.K. are [interpreted as] wet blankets or sore losers.

If there's a message, it's that the unlovable and unattractive parts of ourselves should be embraced. The only real currency between people is what happens when they're not cool. And I hope people feel OK about not being cool.

We can live a life full and complete, thinking with our heads but living from our hearts.

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.

Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star!

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard. I've gone through things in my life. People say it must be so hard to do it in the public eye, but the truth is, when you go through hard things, it's just hard.