No matter how wild reality was obviously often being, it was an absolutely secure place, as a tone and intelligence, and a thing happening.

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.

What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.'

I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I want no sentimentality. I want no more than home.

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

I heard words and words full of holes aching.

I will go to the garden. I will be a romantic. I will sell myself in hell, in heaven also I will be.

For love - I would split open your head and put a candle in behind the eyes.

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.

Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information.

Jace said that the cast of Gilligan's Island could do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.

We can make detours with our mind but we can't distract the truth from our heart.

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

Keep calm and pass me the ball.

Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand.

I think fashion can have a very negative impact on young people who feel they have to be thin. I am not part of that trend. There is so much pressure on teenage girls.

Like an actor who transforms into the character that they're playing, you can transform into yourself.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.

When youre in that scene, you really wonder if this is all youre ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside.