Which has left me with a healthy respect and fondness for higher education that those of my friends and family who attended universities were cured of long ago.

Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.

No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author.

It's oneiric, a beautiful, formless sequence of silver nitrate shadows, and when it ends I wonder what happened, and then I begin to rebuild it in my head

We have an obligation to make things beautiful, to not leave the world uglier than we found it.

Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation, and new people, new readers, need to be brought into the conversation too.

You can no more read the same book again than you can step into the same river.

Without stories, we are incomplete.

Books are really places, make no mistake about that.

When I was a child, I thought like a child.When I became adult, I seek a deeper understanding of life.

You are happy when you can enjoy the little things around you.

I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.

The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear.

What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching.

If you cast really funny, talented people and let them do what they need to do, they're going to hit a home run for you without a script.

In my game, there are a lot of nine-hour flights here, there, and everywhere for work, so I prefer to take a shorter plane journey somewhere hot - just for fun.

I was 21 and homeless - such a broken, lost woman.

When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge