Taking on a pet is a contract with sorrow.

I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.

You come from the city and think small means simple when all it realy means is complicated in a smaller place. Which sometimes adds to the complication.

Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury.

I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to go on that -they're not going to disappear.

I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.

I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.

I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.

But they were not friends. They were here to keep each other from spinning off alone into the dark matter of the universe.

Storming was one of her main modes of transportation." In reference to teenager Heather in "Carry The One

Enjoy being with yourself, you will then not feel alone.

Singing always came naturally but the writing side is something I have always had to work hard at to get from good songs to great songs.

I can multitask very well. But I know exactly when to block off anything coming in from the outside and just stay focused on the film.

Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?

I stick to playing Brahms, but I love listening to Led Zeppelin, and I've also been a big fan of Earth Wind and Fire since the Seventies and of The Gap Band since the Eighties.

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.

I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.

I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming.

My heroes are always ready, willing, and able to execute moves necessary to get themselves out of deep trouble.