I could say it all began with my mother.

It’s not like I planned it. I never woke up from some rosy dream and said, “Okay, world, today I’m gonna spaz.

She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back.

She was no stripper with a heart of gold, that was for sure. A heart of steel, more like.

We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.

You’re saying, “What the hell am I gonna do with her?” You’re saying, “Shit, did she take her pills?” You’re saying, “Once upon a time, I used to have a little girl.

Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.

I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the veil, that I might touch someone and make them feel something…or something.

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.

Okay, I’ll just jump right out and say it. I have anxiety issues.

Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please.

She chose to freeze her heart, and then stored it deep inside her freezer.She will let it there until she is ready.

The news that gives you a future with hope, in spite of your despair over the past, is realizing that Jesus has prayed for you and is praying for you now.

Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference.

I started as a journalist for magazines in New York City, so it was always storytelling. And moving into movies was a natural transition.

I am an eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, I am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see

I knew that I wanted to meet girls, so I joined a fraternity, and I did yoga.

First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.

I know something better is on the road for me.

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.

Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all.