What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.

I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.

I use nothing but homeopathic remedies, for my girls as well.

Manhattan, though, was an entirely different ballgame in a whole different kind of world, with a man who was brilliant and at the same time terribly charismatic.

I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.

If you don't step across the threshold of what you already know into the world of challenges, you never truly measure yourself.

You have to have a little faith in people.

I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.

The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.

I enjoyed doing Lipstick, but it scared me. I was very nervous. I couldn't wait for it to be over. It was very real, and I was just a kid.

That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

I wish for you the wisdom to mind your own business.

In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.

The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified.

I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.

It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value.

The peculiar fascination which the speeding train has for us comes from the evident progress it is making toward its definite goal ahead.