I sit up in bed slowly, feeling the disappointment trickle away like puddles after a rain shower.

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.

If something wants to be a story, it will be.

But the ground shakes, as if something's trying to push up from below, and I think of other people's mothers shaking out their duvets or even God shaking out the fabric of space-time.

I feel like crying. There's something so sad about broken concrete.

There's something romantic about it, of course, in the way only other people's lives can be.

Nothing means anything but you still have to follow the rules.

The sky is grey, with a thin TV-static drizzle that hangs in the air like it's been freeze-framed.

Sometimes I wake up with such an immense sense of disappointment that I can hardly breathe.

The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi.

I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.

It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art.

I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.

Most important to me is my home life and the well-being of my children.

I never get the tall, blonde, glamorous roles because I'm not tall, blonde and glamorous. I'm more the wee, disturbing characters because of the way I look or sound.

Beauty is essentially spiritual. The authentic beauty lies in the heart.

Live your own truth and it won't matter how many lies they tell about you. The truth will prove itself.

Always keeping in mind that you become what you think about, be very careful about any thoughts you harbor that involve doubt.

Racism is cruel and unjust. It cuts deep and lingers long in individual and community memories. And it is not a thing of the past....We all have a duty to do what we can to turn this around.