Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

The quality of life decreases with heightened security.

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.

Welcome to thee, O sword of eternity!Through BuddhaAnd through Daruma alikeThou hast cleft thy way.

As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that is at risk - a vital part of our culture.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought.

When I learned to switch jealousy for admiration, it unblocked a lot of things.

REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.

Beyond 100,000 lines of code, you should probably be coding in Ada.

The war affects me less than it ought. But I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.