His eyes were green chips of flame, and the growl was so thick it blurred the air around him, the sound of a very pissed off skinchanger.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.

What you can't run away from, you have to face

Are you listening, little bird?

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.

That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

Language, because it is imperfect, cannot encompass experience in its raw and primal condition. To verbalize emotion and action is to decrease their impact.

In every bend of time there is some surprise, joy and beauty. Mindfulness is the light to discover it.

If he loves you he will meet your effort.

Thousands are losing their jobs and homes, while corporations are being bailed out with billions of dollars.

Hope - Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope!

In times of stress drawing is a way of relieving tension.

If you take the biological weapons in the United States we still will have perhaps a single individual who was able to make anthrax, dry it, and spread it through the mail and cause terror.

It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world.

A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.