The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport.

They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.

This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.

Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?

She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.

She was the kind of person who never gave you enough time to miss her.

The planet is finished with us, at this point -

This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.

It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.

If you don't take care of this the most magnificent machine that you will ever be given...where are you going to live?

I pretended like all the oranges rolling everywhere were her happy memories and they were looking for a new person to stick to so they didn't get wasted.

I don't want to live in a world with blinders on.

Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.

You are on a vast wheel of birth and death. You have been through thousands of lifetimes, thousands yet to come.

Hollywood allows you to go and express yourself.

I had the global outlook that I really wanted to capture the world. I would like the attention of the world at least and I wanted that.

Well, you go to Holland and everybody's on a bike - nobody would think to have a car.

Ive struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.