Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between.

The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.

Whatever you choose for your stationery is your favorite color because it's where you pour your heart out.

I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.

Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.

Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.

What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.

I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts.

I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.

I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.

There is something about her eyes. Eyes don't breathe. I know that much. But hers look breathless.

Intuition is the silent knowledge of your soul.

The irresponsible mother helped explain bella's maturity. She'd had to grow up early, to become the caretaker. That's why she didn't like being cared for- she felt it was her job.

For a long time, censors have been cutting my works. This makes me so sad, because many times they will tell me, 'Television won't like, so we have to cut, cut, cut!'

The fake slap invariably makes contact, adding the elements of shock and betrayal to what had previously been plain old-fashioned fear.

Some people like M&Ms plain, and some people like them with nuts.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.

The only problem with the way they do my character is that they have her get redeemed too early.

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

Ive never gone to culinary school, but I do love cooking.

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.