When you give up struggle, there's a kind of love.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

...my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting.

Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.

Enjoy all you have while pursuing all you want.

Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you're stupid

The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that.

Fish don't know much about water, and people didn't know much about air.

The nature of illusion is that, when you see through it, it disappears.

To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.

Suggestions?" I asked [...] Marc never took his gaze from the cage. "Get the hose.

I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice.