What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?

We buy balloons, we let them go.

I have to return some videotapes

The better you look, the more you see.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

No one ever likes the right person.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.

Porque a volar no se aprende solo, pero a caer no se aprende nunca.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life and find solace in fantasy.

I believe that art has incredible power.

With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

If you just want to be a star, go away.

the devil does not have a fork Brianna, he has a whip

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.

You cannot know if you will be successful or not. You can only prepare for battle and it must be done with all of your heart and with all of your consciousness. In that manner, you will have an edge.

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.