"I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go, wants to feel like it's not all for naught, and it's meaningful, because it makes you who you are."

"In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done."

"There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty."

"Well, dating has become a sport and not about finding the person you love."

"For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled."

"No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech."

"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."

"Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me."