I have to go, " I say, helpless.What makes you say the opposite of what every cell in your body wants you to say?

When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.

You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.

Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?

it's okay to be addicted to beauty, " Mom says, all dreamy. "Emerson said 'beauty is God's handwriting.

Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs.

The worst thing that could ever happen to Noah has happened. He's become normal.

SELF PORTRAIT: Throwing Armfuls of Air into the Air

And I see that his brown eye has a splash of green in it and the green one a splash of brown. Like Cezanne painted them. Impressionist eyes.

Nor that he's regarding my face with the same intensity I am his. We're two paintings staring at each other across a room.

In the eye, there is a type of junk that accumulates in the back of the retina that eventually causes us to go blind. It's called age-related macular degeneration.

Henry loves my hair almost as though it is a creature unto itself, as though it has a soul to call its own, as though it could love him back.

If most people wanted to be incognito, they put on a fake beard or mustache. If I wanted to I'd just shave mine off.

Would somebody please explain to me those signs that say, "No animals allowed except for Seeing Eye Dogs?" Who is that sign for? Is it for the dog, or the blind person?

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with every person.' I am an Indian woman and I'm a kind of double minority in this world.

You who have received so much love, share it with others. Love others the way that God has loved you, with tenderness.

I know sometimes when I go to a convention or a film festival occasionally people bring me really valuable and really rare memorabilia that I have never seen before.

Maybe they made me captain because I've been here so long. But if I'm supposed to lead by example, then I'll be a terrible captain.

I feel like making music because - and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this record - there's more of myself in it.