I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.

When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.

I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)

Life is the most spectacular show on earth.

The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?

When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.

The problem with patience and discipline is that it requires both of them to develop each of them.

The internet connects us all and provides this fabulous fact-checking mechanism, and yet at the same time, the power of lies is conveyed much more efficiently now because they're accepted so fast.

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

You know, honestly - look, I'm not a journalist. This is the first, you know, tragedy that I have covered on the air.

Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.

I also take vitamins because I think when you take care of yourself on the inside it makes a big difference in your skin.

The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.

You are God's child. His creation. Destined for heaven. You are a part of his family.

I love David Fincher - even though it was just two scenes, I loved the way we worked and could tell by the way he was shooting it that this was going to be an affective movie to say the least.