Women were supposed to be strong, but they weren't really, they weren't allowed to be.

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

Go for long walks, indulge in hot baths, Question your assumptions, be kind to yourself, live for the moment, loosen up, scream, curse the world, count your blessings, Just let go, Just be.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

The scolding voice is her own, so abrasive and quick, yet so powerless to move her.

Live Loud, Love Loud, Laugh Loud, Play Loud, Cry Loud – Isn’t that what life’s about!

I never tired of picturing sharks.

Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books.

Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

They were back. The demons in all their glory. And they had a plan. I made plans sometimes, too, but they rarely involved world domination. Hot dogs on a grill, maybe. Tequila.

As an actor, you go through life thinking "This stop is the last stop," so you just put your heart and soul into everything and do your best work.

Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.

I don't have to many friends, I have 5 or 6 boys in my life that never change no matter what.

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.

We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.