I'd rather be judged on what I can do instead of who I'm not.

But what if hope had a threshold? What if there was a limit to it? What if each of us was only given a certain amount and mine was used up?

The world after a war is a good world, I told myself. A happy world. A secure world. In this world, I might do anything.

I thought of the pieces of me I'd left behind, a piece here, a piece there, scattered like bread crumbs. How much of me was left?

I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.

You're always kind of shifting and changing and it's a really exciting process.

I feel bad only when I play badly. Fortunately, that happens rarely.

I don't like travelling if I know I have to write about it.

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

Everyone wears an invisible sign that reads "Notice me. Make me feel important."

Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.

I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.

I love the romantic comedy genre. It's a genre rich with many of the best movies ever made and I try to treat it with the respect that Shakespeare treated it with.

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.