You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.

Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.

Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.

We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.

Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me.

We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.

The only book that is worth writing is the one we don’t have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us (we who are writing), that makes us tremble, redden, bleed

Everything ends with flowers.

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.

I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and bring them back to life

Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.

who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.

Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths of misery.

Light the candle of success with the flame of excellence.

If you want to convince a criminal to see things your way, start by seeing things theirs.

of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse

A father-son relationship is strong, like no other teammates. You could be straightforward with one another.

I have a writer's memory, which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.

I drink coffee with my right hand, and I smoke with my left. But I talk with both hands.

Having an open dialogue, in any creative atmosphere, is really important to feeling free to tell the story the best way you can.

Something has to happen between you and the public, some interface that lets the public in on what you're doing.