If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.

Words save our lives, sometimes.

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.

It took us a while to discover that we do effectively think, but that we more readily narrate backward in order to give ourselves the illusion of understanding, and give a cover to our past actions.

I try to not be too hard on myself regarding my diet. I've always been a workout-to-eat kind of a girl. I like to eat, to say the least.

Where might is, the right is: Long purses make strong swords. Let weakness learn meekness: God save the House of Lords!

Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die.

It were a journey like the path to heaven, To help you find them.

Snarky, sexy and so much fun. Sugar Jamison is sure to be a hit!.

How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air, in competition of an hypothesis.

My boy, you must find a kingdom big enough for your ambitions. Macedon is too small for you.

We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived.

My problem with the traditional acting method was that I never understood what you were supposed to be thinking about when you're onstage.