He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.

Be a little kinder than you have to.

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be

The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.

One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.

When blood dripped on my bare feet or poured over the book I was reading, he was kind.

For the old people in my family—Mummy, the aunties, Granddad—the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal.Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.Wins what? is what I’d like to know.

My boyfriend is named Percocet, " I say. "We're very close. I even went to Europe with him last summer.

The seed of God’s Word must be planted in a person’s heart before they can be born again.

I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.

I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.

For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.

I really do think that every time you play a role well, you are in danger of being identified with that role until the next big thing comes along.

Sometimes people can be guilty of not working at relationships and if it's not working, oof, that's it.