When you're writing, your mind has a place where the stories happen. With one word, you can get the idea of where you are.

I remember I grew up in a poor family and we had almost nothing and we were not treated very well by our family. There was no safe haven for us. But somehow we always managed to be happy.

There's no way that you can stop nature.

I think that melodrama is a safe way of suffering, because your suffering is fake. That's why I like melodrama.

It's always great to work with masters, people who are really, truly good at what they do.

Something that is very difficult to translate is the humor.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.""Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?""How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.

You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.

Respect yourself, your Opponent and the Game

To play a bag woman is brave for any woman.

Hey, I work one full hour a day!

It feels amazing to work with writers that write really well.

Sometimes being an artist is a real drag. It can be incredibly bureaucratic.

We must slow down to a human tempo and we’ll begin to have time to listen.