Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

My heart keeps begging me for a reason to keep beating, but I'm running out of lies to tell it

I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

The reason people lose their healing, is because they begin questioning if God really did it.

It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them

As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad.

I've never had a method of working. I change according to circumstances; I don't employ any particular technique or style. I make films instinctively, more with my belly than with my brain.

A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.

They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life. In other words, it's evolving fast and faster.