Pip wondered what the secret was of being different in a way that attracted people, as opposed to her own way.

I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

Life is so precious! Live with love, joy, happiness, and abundance.

The first time I watched him fight, I got hard. My heart pounded in my chest, and I chewed on my lip until it bled. I vowed then I would make him mine.

Heaven did not seem to be my home

The only real insurance you have against disease is a healthy body. Invest wisely, generously and often in that policy.

I have seen the greatest artists and the most eccentric divas in music. The greater and more visionary they were, the more self-reflexive and childlike they behaved.

but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

Communication is vital when it comes to excelling in the workplace and in your personal relationships.

When not much is happening and there seems to be nothing you can do to change that, you do wonder. But I am an actor, like it or not. I stuck with it and took what was offered.

Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.