We owe it to each other to tell stories, as people simply...

Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than you ever could have dreamed it would.

We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.

Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')

Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can colour one's entire day.

Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.

If we do not fight to create a future there will be no future for any of us.

I believe we owe it to each other to tell stories. It's as close to a credo as I have or will, I suspect, ever get.

Motherhood by definition means a journey into the depths of one’s possibility.

I won an amateur night, October 8th, 1985. I went to work the next day and quit my job.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.

I'm kinda rather make people laugh I guess or cry or whatever but bragging about what I have for me personally uncharacteristic I guess.

I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.

Our prayers are heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are when we are not praying

People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.

Believe in the whisperings of God to your own heart.

I’ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy.