We do not want to be beginners (at prayer), but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners all of our lives. --Thomas Merton

I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.

Expectations is the mother of all negative energies within in you...

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.

There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting to people, whether it's memoir or fiction, is the truth.

I would like my work to be thought of as a celebration of life and nature.

Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?

ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.

Did you know that every human being is created with a purpose and that they have a responsibility to not only discover their purpose but also to fulfill it?