You should recognize that criticism is not always a put down. If you take it to heart, maybe it will guide the way you ought to be going.

Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.

It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

The period from 2001 to 2005 was really tough. My films were not working even though there was an acceptance of a model. I was depressed but did not cry. I cry when I am happy.

All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?

They kind of look like evil lawn gnomes

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

Tried on daddy's 1979 rookie firesuit a while back. Smelled every bit of 36 years old.

Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive.

People were always hungry, bullied, afraid, paranoid - so I just thought I'd show that in the novel in a kind of suffocating way.