I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.

My ambition was to live like music.

Of course there’s something there; unfortunately, there’s always something ‘there.’ Something you will one day be sorry you saw.

The only way to know whats possible is to venture past impossible.

You can teach people a lot about craft and various techniques, and you can certainly teach them to appreciate, but you cannot give them spirit or soul if it's not there.

What are you thinking?” She asks. -That you are beautiful. That not everyone could see it. I almost became the kind of person who could not.

Whenever young writers ask me for advice, I always say you have to be able to take a lot of rejection because, unless you're very lucky, that's what's going to happen.

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.

I think people hold back all kinds of things. And in a way, they just want to be nice. They want to be civil.

Partly, I'm worried that no one is saying anything because they are afraid of being seen as politically correct.

I think if a woman is very happy with herself and at ease with her choices, it goes a long way toward making other people feel at ease with her.

One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined by some as yet unknown, or unspecified, means'.

As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.

Whoever tells the best story wins.

I think gambling can be a good thing if you don't take it too seriously. Take it and have fun with it, and don't lose what you can't afford to lose.

Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.

We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards.

Because it’s our duty to God to protect the rest of humanity from evil creatures of the night.

The feeling that dreams show us the real nature of reality is something that's shared by many indigenous groups around the world.

I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible.

Will what I am about to do, bring me closer to, or take me further from my goals?