The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.

Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

Why can’t our job here on earth be simply to inspire each other?

The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.

The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn.

The blood in my veins is frozen but it sings of love.

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.

I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.

I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Most suffering comes from the failure to adapt and a resistance to change.

Adventure lies not in the places we seek, but in the moments we create in the places we treasure.

We're all living in different states and we all have different systems within those states. Even on the most basic personal level, it affects me.

Ever since I was little, I loved to eat. I started eating when I wasn't hungry. My weight has always been up and down.

Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.

Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

Pride builds walls between people, humility builds bridges.

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.