Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it.

I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.

When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can dowhere you're never bored.

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!

I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.

Just think of it as a picnic with guns and monsters instead of mosquitoes and ants. Do we have fun or what?

Money can't buy love, but money can reprove one's care, especially when there is little to give in its efforts to help.

I can already tell he isn't the kind of guy a girl gets a simple crush on. He's the kind of guy you fall hard for, and the thought of that terrifies me.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

You've got to lose your passion for dumbness.

Certainly, for me, and it's gone this way on every project I've worked on, the "writing" never ends until you're done with the movie.

If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.

The time comes when our hearts sink utterly; When we remember Deirdre and her tale, And that her lips are dust.

Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?

I like to literally put women on a pedestal