A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

We chart delusions through collective agreement.

The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.

We are all dying one by one. We all smell of mortality, and we can't wash it off.

Count your blessings as the more you are grateful for what you have the more there is to be grateful for.

Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.

I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.

I'm taking care of the children, doing a bit of cooking and trying to do a bit of DIY around the house. But that's not going too well.

I wanted to go in a different direction, artistically. But having somebody like Terry[Crews] in it was your ace in the hole. That makes it very strong, so I definitely had to jump in with both feet.

The world is my oyster. I can do whatever I like.

In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.

People figure because I'm blonde and was a model, I just waltzed into Los Angeles and got major roles in major films.

The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.

I'm the thing that fundamentalist Christians cringe over.