The problem with thinking up a new and original idea within a novel is that you have to make sure that Kurt Vonnegut did not already think of it.

Good things happen in your life when you surround yourself with positive people.

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

As an actress, you have to keep yourself fresh and new.

Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is.

I don't do well with changes in my routine. I read at least three newspapers a day, for example. I'm frustrated if for some reason I can't get ahold of all three.

The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do.

If I can get you to a point where you can lead a full life, sustain a job, earn money for your family - you can be completely engaged as a citizen.

Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.

The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.