Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

Be a little kinder than you have to.

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be

The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.

Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.

One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.

When blood dripped on my bare feet or poured over the book I was reading, he was kind.

For the old people in my family—Mummy, the aunties, Granddad—the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal.Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.Wins what? is what I’d like to know.

My boyfriend is named Percocet, " I say. "We're very close. I even went to Europe with him last summer.

Nothing seems crazy when you're used to it.

I'm tired of being your best friend. I'm tired of being second best. I won't settle for that anymore. It's all or nothing, Schuyler. You have to decide. Him or me.- Oliver Hazzard-Perry

Peace is more difficult than war.

I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

When your movie is hot, your options are crazy.

I can tell you, Massachusetts, fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy and energy efficiency companies. And they're growing faster than any other sector.

If someone puts up $100 million on a movie, they're gonna be concerned about whether they'll get it back. So they're not gonna make a movie about three girls, you know?

I don't believe in original melodies. There are only so many computations of eight notes.

There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text.