I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land somehow, or hope I'd float or survive. That's more or less the way I've gone through my life.

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

I'm English. We're about as tactful as a hot poker up the bum, most of the time.

Poor people do not go on holiday

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.

Read to live, not live to read.

Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.

If Messi is the best on the planet, Ronaldo is the best in the universe.

I have faith in God and not that we have evolved from a rock, not from worshiping the environment or endangered bugs.

I don't have any premonitions. I don't have any supernatural powers. I just have a typical woman's intuition, and I go with that.

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

I'm the youngest of seven kids.