Living for ever would be like marrying yourself, with no possibility of a divorce.

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

Routine kills creative thought.

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.

I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything.

One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain.

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.

Commit to the lifestyle of investing in you first. It always produces the best return.

The best of a bad bargain.

I refuse to be silenced.

I will not live by rules that make no sense to me

You learn a lot about acting and being physical and being on stage, but there is technical stuff on camera that you can't learn until you do it.

I’m trying to accept where I’m at, not run from it.

I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

I only wore makeup when I went onstage.

If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on.

First it's pretty tires. Next it's pretty guns. Then the next thing you know, you're shaving your beard and wearing capri pants.