This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

Go for long walks, indulge in hot baths, Question your assumptions, be kind to yourself, live for the moment, loosen up, scream, curse the world, count your blessings, Just let go, Just be.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

The scolding voice is her own, so abrasive and quick, yet so powerless to move her.

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted.

Joy is a choice, not an outcome.

We don't sell a car, we sell a dream. We are Italy's national team. There are many great soccer teams in our country, but there is only one Ferrari.

Night is the wonderful opportunity to take rest, to forgive, to smile, to get ready for all the battles that you have to fight tomorrow.

95% of everything you do is the result of habit.

Happiness is the ultimate goal. It is the goal of all other goals.

I have so much more confidence in myself now than I ever did before.

If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really.

Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?

You can't have unity without diversity.

The emblem of a philosophy is not that it contains a set of specific thoughts , but that it generates a way of thinking.