Believing something doesn't change who you are. Neither does rejecting something you once believd in.

I don't trust anyone who wouldn't.

What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin.

Of course there is a monkey. There is always a monkey.

Time and circumstances change us...and it is pointless to ask why.

A person is no more & no less than the Story of his Passions & Deeds.

It dawned on him that he really could be a cop if he wanted to, and it dawned on him that he'd had this revelation while eating a donut, and it that wasn't a sign, he didn't know what was.

The creation of art requires descent into the dark.

What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Words are a gift to the dead and a warning to the living.

-It's extremely cool how the words can stay the same but their meaning can change.-Because the reader changes.-EXACTLY

If I am going out into the unknown, it might as well be the really unknown.

I don't have a command for 'stop wagging your tail'.

Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.

I know a lot and have written a lot and have thought a lot about motherhood.

Also "Catcher in the Rye", which happens to be one of my favorite books, I just found that kind of useful. It helps you get into the American accent.

Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is you are longing for.

In the world we make good as evil and evil as good.

It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.

When I was in high school, I would perform every year in those plays and there was something I really loved about it. But I was completely unaware that you could sort of get into an acting career.

Women were victims. Their husbands could beat them up when they wanted to. They couldn't work. They could be maimed and killed by their husbands.

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.