a woman who struggles to recover from a brutal attack and sets out on a dark, psychological and physical journey for revenge and justice.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.

My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.

Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.

Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.

I have my dream job! As a young person training as an actor, walking on the WB studio lot is a dream in itself.

You see what kills your body but you don't see what kills your soul.

The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals.

Things which don't shift and grow are dead things.

This was my first novel [The Dissemblers ]. I've never seriously written short stories, and actually find short stories much more intimidating as an art form than novels.

We have only one consciousness stream. When we associate with Truth, we ascend upwards, and when we associate with untruth we fall down.