Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last.

Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.

What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?

When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.

To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.

Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.

My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither.

Silence, too, can be torture.

I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?

Safe, I decided, didn't leave much room for fun.

Jacob: "Let her stare."Terra: "What?"Jacob: "Yeah most of the starers are just curious. Smile back. That's what I used to do.

That made love—not grace—the magic ingredient. Then anew thought hit her. Perhaps love was grace. A shiver wentup her spine. What did that make anger? The antithesis ofgrace?

May everyone be happy and safe, and may their hearts be filled with joy.

The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

I learned to distrust writers who talked about how they squeezed the blood onto the typewriter. They just don't want you to know how much fun they have - you'll resent it.

You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn't come.

I had to dare a little bit. Who am I kidding-I had to dare a lot. Dont wear one ring, wear five or six. People ask how I can play with all those rings, and I reply, Very well, thank you.

C'mon, we're actors. We love the attention. We love the applause. We sure don't like to be rejected.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

Like 84% of Canadians, I believe in God.