“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” 

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” 

"After my first year on 'Gossip Girl,' everybody said, 'You've got to do a big commercial movie, ride this wave.'"

"I could probably make more money if I did more commercial projects."

"My mom would have different fragrances for different times of the year. They were a part of her identity. I don't remember the specific ones she used, but I remember the bottles."

"My mom taught me this really great beauty tip. She used to put oil or mayonnaise on the bottom half of her hair before she would shower."

"I had a premonition when I was nine that I'd marry Leonardo DiCaprio."

"Martha Stewart's my idol."

"I think baking is an incredible thing; cooking in general is an incredible thing."

"If i'm not with somebody who really excites or inspires me, then I'd rather be by myself."

"I look at anything in life like as long as you do what you believe in, then it's going to work out. Because even if other people don't like what you're doing, you're happy because you did what you believed in."

"I think certain people are the way they are for certain reasons that we can't necessarily judge without knowing."

"I think in high school there's so many cliques. You're never safe."

“Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't exist.”

“The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.”

“A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?”

“They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.”

“Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?”

“Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.”

“Me? I'm the king of the twentieth century. I'm the bogeyman. The villain...The black sheep of the family.”

“If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going.”

“To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate — unlike most films.”

“We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.”

“The one place Gods inarguably exist is in our minds where they are real beyond refute, in all their grandeur and monstrosity.”