You mustn’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

There is no such thing as expecting too much.

Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst

I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to tap…we’re just getting started figuring out what the rules are.

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay there with them. Dogs love us unconditionally, not for our bodies or bank accounts.

Womens currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.

Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.

Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.

Guilt is petty; I am above guilt.

You're under arrest for multiple counts of murder. You have the right to not much at all, really. Do you have anything to say in your defense?

The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.

Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.

I don't admit that a woman draws that well!

The world is an inherently unfair place.

From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

I've never felt completely satisfied with what I've done. I tend to see things too critically. I'm trying to get over that.

In 1989, SimCity introduced an entirely new brand of game play.

I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.

I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?