He’s just another man who wants to teach me something.

One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.

We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them.

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.

Maybe that's good to not feel like you have to keep up when there's so much to keep up with right now. It's bottomless.

There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn't. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work.

To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.

What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.

A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.

When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky

The true secret to seeking the unknown is in the looking, not the finding. The journey is what matters.

Forgetting your mission leads, inevitably, to getting tangled up in details-details that can take you completely off your path.

What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.

A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.

Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

I know most people always thank people for believing in them - I actually want to thank people that didn't believe in me.