The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re not the first to die.

Hands have their own language.

For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.

I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

If any of you are related to our main guest let me know so I can speak slowly.

Ruin and recovery are both from within.

My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.

I'd never worked with an actor-director before [Warren Beatty].

She bit my bodyguard. She bit him in the stomach.

I did a pilot for HBO, called One Percent, that they didn't end up picking up, but it was a pretty intense and dramatic piece.

You can always be writer. It's not so much a metamorphosis as it is finding what you want.

The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.

At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.