All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.

I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.

Pick something else".For an instant's flash Kylis remembered being taunted like this before, when she was very small. Anything but that. Anything but what you really want.

How do you behave when you win? When your enemies are at your mercy and your power has become absolute: what then?

Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but ­essentially you’re on your own. ­Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don’t whine.

It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can’t have.

The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

As a means of supporting experiential element in film, once I begin to work on a particular movie I consider myself to be the tool of the director.

But I think if you treat people well, they embrace you. The other stuff, it just doesn't matter.

You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science.

If a fool keeps his mouth shut, there will be no difference of opinion.

Love is where it's at. I'm not speaking of sexual love. I'm talking about where you love each other, want to do the best for each other and just just are happy you found each other.