Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

I have to return some videotapes

The better you look, the more you see.

No one ever likes the right person.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.

Seven of those days were pretty good. The eighth day was the bad one.

Integration arises from intimacy with our emotions and our bodies, as well as with our thoughts.

You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.

What I do is I come in the morning and get involved in the character, but I'm always very pleased to leave it at night and have my life.

Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, 'Only ingenues age.'

Do the best you can, and then to hell with it!

You gave me reason to believe that we were always meant to be, but now I see you were wrong, you can't keep running back to me with all them baby baby please, No More.

I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful.

I don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the narrative.

There can be no faith without risk.