If you're not happy, if you're not Emmersonianly happy and think everything's going to get better, then you're just sort of a dark animal.

Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction.

Someone once told me years ago that there was nothing so dead as a warmed-over love affair.

Someone said, in a simplistic way maybe, that all American poetry is either cooked or raw, and if it's cooked, it comes from Poe.

I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me.

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, it means then that if you have a prophetic sensibility, you are committed to loving others and if you love others, you hate injustice.

Movie stars are supposed to be healthy. They're kept happy and nutritionally together.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do traditional Japanese practice, which is not that traditional actually.

I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.

Choose love and don't ever let fear turn you away from your playful heart

I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that.

I lived in the cultural equivalent of Tatooine when I was a little boy. I didn't live in London, I didn't live right in the middle of where everything was happening, I lived on the very edge of it.

Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.