The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

The life of the mind is always more interesting than the real. The idea is often more interesting than the actual.

I've never had a problem with the old truism about dancing to architecture. I think you can dance to architecture. There's some pretty funky architecture to dance to.

I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I and the ego.

I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc.

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.

If you truly love someone, you should be more interested in keeping them happy than in being right.

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

Some of you might know me as Meg Lacey, but Lynda Miller is my real name. Of course, I am usually called Lynn and only Lynda by my father when I was in trouble.

I'm superstitious a little bit.

If I'm not feeling good, I load on jewelry. It gives me energy and makes me feel happy.

My mother's in my life, but at the time you imagine your mom passing away, not being there ... as a kid you try to think of something that hurts you the most ... It was just a tool [in "Hardball"].

Jad said, "The leakage was forcing choices, the making of which in no way improved matters." Okay. So we were, in effect, locked in a room with a madman sorcerer. That clarified things a little.

Paul Ryan's just a really, deeply evil little creature. But he's not little; he's actually quite tall, I'm sorry to see. I'm always sorry when really bad guys are tall.

My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.

The first album I bought with my own money was 'A Hard Day's Night.'