What's great about good writing is that it feels like life, so it's not hard to relate to her circumstances.

Why do we insist women are cast 10 years younger than the role they're playing? Men don't know what a 30-year-old is supposed to look like because on TV she's always 20.

I'm a middle child, and I'm pretty diplomatic: the peace-maker.

I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.

I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something.

Parents always stay older than you, but sibling sort of become adults together, and that complicates that relationship, I think.

I don't regret my past but I regret not doing enough to achieve my goals today. Today is the only opportunity to make tomorrow a success.

In the now, time ceases to exist and we experience a presence that is all-absorbing, completely at peace, and totally satisfying.

Arm chair warriors often fail.

Some people never have anything except ideals.

Anyhow, the hole in the donut is at least digestible.

The business of judging a headline AFTER you read the copy is wrong. It takes for granted that everybody reads the copy.

Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.

Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.

All of William S. Burroughs friends pushed it forward and introduced me to one another. I was able to enter into that beat family for a while and document it.