As every so-called creative spirit soon learns, the rest of the world doesn't particularly give a damn.

You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.

Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

Every moment I have ever experienced as a child is as important as every moment I am experiencing now, or will experience ever. I guess what I'm saying is that not everybody should have children.

I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.

She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favorite books are accordions, testaments to an endless search for meaning.

I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity.

I am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? My job is to keep everyone guessing.

After all, this is America, and you can swap out the parts of yourself that don't work. You can rebuild yourself piece by piece.

Maybe this is who I really am.Not a loner, exactly.But someone who can be alone.

What treaty is it that finally separates those two territories, the hard resolve of our exteriors and the terrible disaster on our insides?

Sometimes the best way to solve your own problems is to help someone else

Sometimes in the world, there's such pressure to follow a certain path that we forget the importance of learning as we go.

The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.

I was literally living on the edge of life, to the point where I didn't know what was going to happen, not caring, taking chances and finally landing in prison and once there, all my lines were cut.

No woman can become or remain degraded without all women suffering.

Heart is what makes a difference

You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals

The importance of command leadership. Clear objective and strategy and loyalty to those reporting to you.

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.