I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

The quality of life decreases with heightened security.

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.

Contentment is not a power that may be exercised naturally, but a science to be acquired gradually.

There is a right way to pray and a wrong way to pray!

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.

Don't live worried, frustrated or upset because of what somebody did or what didn't work out. Come back to a place of peace. It's not going to work against you; it's going to work for you.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

I don't weigh myself.

Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium.