I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts.

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

I have work, and then I have a dinner thing. And then I am busy, trying to become who I am.

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.

Confidence lets you pull anything off, even Tevas with socks.

Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.

Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

At a brunch potluck, I realize that I do, in fact, hate everybody.

But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.

For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

I'm married to football, baseball is my girlfriend.

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

Clothes can have a very refined vibration. An ochre robe can be extremely refined and so can a wonderful satin gown or a silk brocade coast.

Countries are poor not because their people are lazy; their people are 'lazy' because they are poor.

People crave a conspiracy for the same reason they crave a god.

After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.

All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.