Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.

I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them. I am all the time writing a novel.

Some people die, others just run out of fuel.

I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings.

The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life.

A shrewd enemy will teach you more than a foolish friend.

My heart is a harness of nothing, deflated balloon, and a place of loss.

If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.

A little belief, a little faith, a little hope is sometimes all we need, to see the light.

I love taking on roles that I haven't yet done in my career.

Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.

I will not agree to have this bill [to repeal DADT ] go forward, because our economy is in the tank.

How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.

Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.

To be adored is something I recommend.