Sometimes to stay alive, you gotta kill your mind.

(On period costume posture coaching:)"We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.

One goal of my art is to help people remember why they are here now.

I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.

Gratitude can sometimes be as annoying as whininess.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

She dumped me for the quarterback after she'd played my body like a banjo. So Sad." "I bet" "I'm serious. I was heartbroken." "For how long?" "A whole week." An eternity in the life of a teenage boy.

To kill [children in the womb] makes us all the poorer, insensitive, calloused and jaded.

Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent.

To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.