A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.

Words save our lives, sometimes.

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.

Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.

I want to do the romantic comedies. You know, the stuff that Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts or Reese Witherspoon would choose, of course.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.

Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.

Would he find her? Without question. Would he save her? Always.

Rapid increases in the quantity of money produce inflation. Sharp decreases produce depression.

The feminist movement as at present instituted is Inadequate.

I am equally proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian fatherland.

Realize that the banality around us that passes as "hipness" or "mass culture" is as satisfying as "mass food"-only it comes in much more unappetizing portions.

As an actor, the second and last ones were interesting for me. Because those parts had the most change in playing someone who was both light and dark, sort of Jekyl and Hyde.