I am not afraid of the dark. And you shouldn't be either.

I have to go. I have to be brave.

It is good to bounce things off a trusted friend.

It is brave to believe that you are a unique, precious young lady no matter what your feelings might be saying.

I guess I need to leave it up to the Great Magician, as Harry would say.

The best part of being unique is not having to be perfect.

Summer had a way of being full of fun and things to do and plenty of times of doing nothing and feeling bored.

I go where I'm needed.

The fragile art of existenceIs kept alive by sheer persistenceThe fragile art of existence.No time for self-pityNo time for dwelling on what should have beenBut is yet to be.

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

You are not an extra in somebody else's film. You are the star in your own life.

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either won on paper or held to a draw.

I don't have to work, really, but I do enjoy working, and I do enjoy getting paid.

I do wear lipstick because when I suddenly get pale or green, it seems whole blood goes away.

I think we could all be a bit more elitist.

It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.