As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write.

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.

I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.

I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.

Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.

I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.

[Kagura is doing laundry and tries to wring out Kyou's shirt causing it to rip in two ]Kyo Sohma: Tell me what I think just happened didn't just happen Kagura: My love !Kyo Sohma: My shirt!

Life is a song made of the musical rhythm of the body, words of the mind and the melodious silence of the soul.

Arrogance makes you stronger from outside, but even more weaker from inside.

To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste.

Why go to the ends of the earth if you have nothing to give?

Either you believe in markets, or you believe in government.

How many times do we all have to do this? Get up, go to school, again? Before everyone admits it's a crap idea?

I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.

The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

I dont know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last?