As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

When it is a question of money everybody is of the same religion.

My mom and father are extremely proud. They love it when I don't die. I've done so many movies where I've died that their first question when I book a job is 'So are you going to die in this?'

Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer things that I'm worried about as either a woman a wife a mom an American.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual because that means they also sleep with men and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.

To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.