Sasha Grey

All girls who seemed to have everything going for them. And decided they had nothing.

Sex is the great equalizer

Half of sex is the dreaming

My dad is really just lazy. He has nothing, I feel, to offer this world.

I've been writing since I was 10 or 11. I started with poetry because that was the easiest thing. It just kind of came naturally. I think at that time West Coast hip hop was huge; all these kids around me were like, 'I want to be a rapper.' But I'm a white girl, not going to be a rapper.

A shiny ring isn't romantic to me. I think thought and love into what you do for the person you're in love with - that's romance.

I sacrificed a lot, in terms of friendship and family, from working so much at such a young age, but I wouldn't be where I am if I hadn't.

I'm not one to sit here and judge here. But I think it's funny that the people that condemn the adult industry the most are the ones consuming the product the most.

Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am.

[What do you want to be when you grow up?] "A wrecker of civilizaton