Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.

I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.

It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

During the primaries, if another candidate criticized him, [Donald] Trump would respond with even stronger criticism toward his attacker.

Every disability is imagined. Every achievement is an experience.

Love is you, you and me. Love is knowing we can be.

In live action, you go scene by scene, but in voice over you go line by line. In voice over you do a lot more takes.

When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.

We are not especially 'interested in' animals. Neither of us had ever been inordinately fond of dogs, cats, or horses in the way that many people are. We didn't 'love' animals.

I never realized that as a woman I would be looked at as less than until I was pretty deep in this business and realized, 'Oh my God. I'm being treated this way because I'm female.

If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.