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A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail.

In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you.

We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.

What isn't said is as important as what is said.

Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals.

A society manufactures the heroes it requires.

Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.

Then we have to pray for the light of the Holy Spirit to shine in people’s lives

You definitely can't forget everything that happened in your past. But you can place some positive interpretations on them, so that they don't control your present and future emotions and feelings.

I told him how winning never feels as good as losing feels bad and when he asked why, I told him that my wins were for someone else but my losses were all on me.

When I was filming 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' in America, for a couple of weeks beforehand we would always fit in a family holiday in California.

You'll never be a wonderful woman or even a wonderful human being until you learn to have some regard for human frailty.

Man, if I can get a burp out of that little thing I feel such a sense of accomplishment.

A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.

Don't care what people gonna think of you, do what you wanna do and seek just your happiness.

Never give up. In the end it'll all be worth it.

If I had a comfort blanket, I wouldn't have been as passionate and driven.