I said, 'I need to know how he died.' He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?' So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

... Man is not truly one, but truly two... even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both...

Junk?” Gram gasped. “One man’s junk is another man’s treasure, you know.”“Yeah, well, maybe it’s time to let another man have it, you think?” he teased. ~ "The Mirror

Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save you.

Usually when I buy clothes off the rack, I need to have them adjusted.

When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.

Feminism and issues surrounding being female in the world, always, but particularly right now at this complicated cultural moment. It's a huge part of what's important to me.

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do.

The biggest culprits in the housing fiasco came from the private sector, and more specifically from a mortgage industry that was out of control.

I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager, and never, ever your uniform.