Sometimes I wake up with such an immense sense of disappointment that I can hardly breathe.

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.

Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.

If something wants to be a story, it will be.

But the ground shakes, as if something's trying to push up from below, and I think of other people's mothers shaking out their duvets or even God shaking out the fabric of space-time.

I sit up in bed slowly, feeling the disappointment trickle away like puddles after a rain shower.

I feel like crying. There's something so sad about broken concrete.

There's something romantic about it, of course, in the way only other people's lives can be.

Nothing means anything but you still have to follow the rules.

The sky is grey, with a thin TV-static drizzle that hangs in the air like it's been freeze-framed.

The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.

The church and religion has lost tremendous power and positive power.

I hope you don't get known for nothing crazy, cause no man ever wants to hear those stories bout his lady.

A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.

When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting that I am, then I won't see it.

Kissing is much easier than smoking.

I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

The Bible is God's love letter to us