Story has a mind of its own and tells things sometimes it might have preferred us not to know. Stories operate like dreams; both veil what is to be uncovered, neither is capable of the coverup.

I don't go to the movies because they scare me. I don't like anything that is suspenseful, even pleasantly so.

I'm very moved and very excited. And it just seems to me here are houses and trees and streets that feel so different from New York. I feel very attached to London; I love it.

I'm not going to say it's laziness, but I'm not a grand creator of new characters.

Once you start on an idea it proliferates in itself.

I dare say you believe I'm going to die. I bet you don't believe you're going to die. You know it, but you don't believe it. Imaginatively, I think we find it impossible to believe we don't exist.

As soon as you move through the hospital doors you've removed yourself from real life. From the world we know. It's an alien world. Just enter those gates and you are in alien territory.

Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.

Let me out Aphador.' Penteluck said smoothly.'So you can attempt to run away, I think not.

The main lesson about prayer is just this: Do it! Do it! Do it! You want to be taught to pray? My answer is: pray.

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain.

Alcoholics are mostly disappointed men.

Not everyone is there to get an abortion. Your body is like a car that has needs and women's bodies constantly need a level of care that men don't.

I mean [Donald Trump] ability to be so shameless, I think that it's impossible for most people to parse.

Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over.

I know sometimes I need to be more like M.J., but M.J. also needs to be more like me. He needs to be the player he is with more my mentality.