I believe the book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life. But it has threatened your life. Not by saying something it believes is true, but by attacking it.

I think horror should have occult elements, not as its subject but as its ambition. It is a machine that destroys illusion. I, of course, never achieve this, but I always act as if I can.

The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me.

The thing he said aloud did not succeed.

Given the option, would you rather choose the right path, even though it’s difficult, or the easy route, knowing that you’ll be compromising your standards?

I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to much independence of feeling.

Being spiritual is a far more intelligent way to exist. It means being in tune with the intelligence of the Creator.

It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline.

A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

I feel I've made the transition from model to actress, but I'm not that secure about it. Lauren Hutton, Jennifer O'Neill - we all know that a few films don't mean all that much.

I don't see the point in signing on to do something and then leaving.

I'm such a sucker for love and I believe in it and I always want it to win.

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.