I am in flight from my story every day, and it dogs me like a faithful stray.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

Tell me the story..About how the sun loved the moon so much..That she died every night..Just to let him breathe...

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.

I guess people might just get tired of my face.

The demarcation between an art house film and an entertainer has blurred, only because a larger section of the audience has accepted such realistic films.

I wanna do a movie! Anything that I connect with, really. I read scripts, I've taken some acting lessons, and I feel like that's definitely my next goal.

The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known.

I think the music of the Fifties is really good. I suspect it's much better musically than much of what's available now. Not in terms of production, but in terms of content.

A day can start out ordinary and end up being in the top ten. —Joe Bunch

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.