The world is not real for me until it has been pushed through the mesh of language.

Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.

In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.

All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.

The past beats inside me like a second heart.

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

Everything we do is tinged with the knowledge that this may be the last time that we will do this, and that makes what we're doing incredibly sweet.

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.

A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.

Fear not! In life, problems are there to make you stronger.

I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I just want to do everything.

Parenting: Nobody really wants the job, but everybody thinks they can do better.

Sharks to not eat Chinese people because they get hungry thirty minutes later".

Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose.

There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.

I don't know where emotion emanates from exactly. I'm full of it, that's all I know.

We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection.

I was surprised how I was feeling on the court because I was focused only on the point and on the game and not on the final.

Health is wealth. Peace of mind is happiness. Yoga shows the way.