Your mind is a ship

We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.

I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.

We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.

Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.

There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.

A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

I think the most important thing is in life, it's all about balance. It's balance between foods you like and nutrition.

I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.