You can't ever stop thinking something quick enough. Something that hurts always gets the knife in too fast for you to slam a lid on it and shove it away.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.

What you can't run away from, you have to face

Are you listening, little bird?

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.

That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

And just as he said of me, the thing that his heart desired was not the thing that he professed to want.

Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.

The Libyan program recently discovered was far more extensive than was assessed prior to that.

Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world.

Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.

I like the excitement you get at touching another human being when you're acting with them and then having a little spark and not knowing what is going to happen in between you.

We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are the result of the experience through outside contact.

I like hurting little things that can't fight back

I don't want to open my mouth or speak anymore, because everything I say becomes scandalous. It wears you out.

The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.