I think the best way for me to go into auditions psychologically was to say, 'You're not going to get it. This is the only acting experience you're going to have with this material.'

At one point in my 20s, I was about to quit acting. I'd had a crappy couple of years and I was depressed. My mom said, 'Don't give up! You'll be so mad at yourself.'

Never let what you cannot do, stop you from doing what you can do!

There was nothing special with the way he looked at her but her heart raced with even glance.

Talent without money, coach, vision and mission is a piteous adventure.

No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.

I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot longer to figure out how to write a story.

Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.

A good writer can watch a cat pad across the street and know what it is to be pounced upon by a Bengal tiger.

You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.

I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.

It is hard to deal with someone who smiles and pretends to like you to your face and sticks that eight inch blade in your back when you turn around.