Americans are obsessed with wild, outlandish things. Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mouse, and Michael Jackson are all wild, outlandish things.

I'm not a space writer, obviously, but I had bought this big photo book of the moon landing. You just get attached to certain stories that don't let you go.

There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about. A blog. Perhaps we all are waiting for someone to discover us.

Maybe the '50s and '60s were more awkward because everyone knew there were things under the surface, but no one talked about them.

I've met a lot of the astronauts, which was such an incredible experience. They're all very macho guys, like fighter pilots, but then there's a mysticism about them.

Am reading the life of Mozart and cannot help thinking that one's capacity for suffering is in direct proportion to one's greatness.

How I love - writing, acting, breathing the atmosphere- and one day I'll have it. If I cannot write, I shall die.

To live in books is cowardly---but people are not worth investigation.

I can only drive slowly.""That's all right.""And I can only do left turns."Rose ran downstairs, grabbed a road atlas, and ran triumphantly back up again. "Wales is left! Look! It's left all the way!

I live my life by the grace of God.

This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.

Your body is your body it's natural. Learn to love yourself for it.

Two hours of sparkling entertainment spread out over a four-hour show.

Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung, what praises said For home-made miracles of bread?

There's a difference between being obsessed and being motivated.

I think the most attractive thing for me when I meet a guy is confidence and him being comfortable in his own skin. I like someone who doesn't need approval or validation.

Let's not forget how beautiful simply washing dishes can be.

Whenever I get a tweet that's trying to promote a thing someone cares about, I'm like, "how annoying!"