I just . . . knew, the way you know how to breathe or to pull your hand back from a hot stove.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.

What you can't run away from, you have to face

Are you listening, little bird?

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.

That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.

The days of hair tonics have long since passed.

I have a very strong record on the Environment in the United States Senate.

Following 'Urumi,' I did get a lot of offers from Malayalam, but frankly, managing films in several industries can become a little hectic. So I decided not to take them up.

We're human beings and the sun is the sun - how can it be bad for you? I don't think anything that's natural can be bad for you.

I’ve never seen anyone rehabilitated by punishment.

Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.

[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?

It is always better to ask then to make an assumption.

The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire.