Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

I love to watch videos, and I’ve always liked to film and take pictures. I have an eye for really weird things that nobody thinks about. I used to make little movies about myself and then edit them on iMovie.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Fiction is based on reality unless you’re a fairytale artist.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

I guess I’m just inspired to tell stories.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

I had my first baby at twenty-one.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don’t obey the rules of progression for novels. I don’t think about a particular form: I think more about fiction, let’s say a chunk of fiction.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don’t have a toy, they’ll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.

I don’t do meetings.