There is nothing "ordinary" about reality.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Beauty is more popular than virtues because it is more visible than virtues.

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.

Timing is a sensitive thing.

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.

I did the figure of Diana in V, a cult TV show seen all over the world.

That's right, there's free beer in Irish paradise. Everyone's jealous.

Are you a King? Are you an Emperor? Can you stop the days passing by? If you cannot, you are nothing!

I went to an all-girls private school, where we played field hockey and lacrosse.

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

Have strength in yourself always .think and remember not just what you should do, but also what you want to do. (Ageha , Basara, Vol. 13)