Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.

Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art.

No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.

Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them snap out of this mentality.

I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.

Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.

Anger is one of those emotions that doesn't follow the letter of the law. It speaks before it thinks. It rears up on its hind legs and charges.

When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from.

My Muse sits forlornShe wishes she had not been bornShe sits in the coldNo word she says is ever told.

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

Enlightenment should be a human right.

It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.

I am alternately very gregarious - very sociable - and then very solitary.

We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion.

I've dodged all sorts of bullets in Hollywood to get my movies made. I'm tough.

Even if we don't know if God exists, we can be certain love exists, because its power transcends death.

When all names and forms have been given up, the real is with you. You need not seek it.