Time passes too quickly when you're getting ready to do something you don't want to do.

The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.

We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death.

You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.

If I can do things right, I don't see why everyone else can't.

The fall takes no time and forever.

Death has been here and where death has been no light shall ever be .

I'm afraid everything I was is gone and all that's left is everything I'm not.

Is this what it's like to get close to other people--you do something insane together and then you have to share everything even if you don't really want to?

Cardboard cutouts of cheerleaders operated by arthritic monkeys would move more fluidly.

Funny how the last thing we want the world to see is almost the first thing to show.

. . . crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.

Do not think that I am not sad, though I laugh.

The life of the spirit is centrally and essentially a life of action. Spirituality is something done not merely something believed or known or experienced.

I think play must have been invented so we wouldn't go mad thinking about certain things.

I always want to learn and be challenged - and to get better as an actress.

Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

I've had some great examples in my career of how to do things the right way.

I'd rather be home alone, painting.

There can never be success without happiness, and no man can be happy without dispensing happiness to others.

One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you get from reading his books.