I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns.

A dream? With you, reality is always as a dream. There is no greater fantasy, no grander epic, than being with you.

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A soldier is not always just a soldier.

I am a post-mastectomy woman who believes our feelings need voice in order to be recognized, respected, and of use.

Trying to talk through and figure out new answers really helps me figure out more about what I'm doing - and what we're all doing.

I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah, it is a shame in a way.

I'm a big people-watcher. I love it. But I feel bad about it, because I always get caught!

I think that's in my case everything I do takes so long because I don't have one direction. I'm just doing what I feel at the moment. It would probably be good, though, to have some direction.