I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details.

The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

Desiree. It's like falling in love every night and having your heart broken every morning... Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past.

We see the world as less random than it actually is.

Getting enough sleep can be just as important as working out.

Cool is the emotional straightjacket. It makes us less available for connection which makes us less equipped for leadership roles.

Somebody is going to win & somebody is not, and that's fine... But we will never refuse to participate because we're scared to fail.

But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.

When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

Things thought too long can be no longer thought, For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth, And ancient lineaments are blotted out.