People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.

Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered.

My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

Remember that a wish held fervently turns into belief, and a belief held diligently becomes reality.

I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.

She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.

When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read.

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.

I don't think of the crown as this glamorous thing. It's this murderous, bejeweled thing, the crown.

A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.

I worked at restaurants and coffee shops and babysitting and just whatever I could do to make money.

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei

And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.

Don't ask me any questions right now. I'm grumpy and I'll probablly make fun of you. -Effie Kaligaris

As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.

The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.

Let's have a toast - to the future generation of consumers, however many heads or assholes they have!

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.

Good storytelling is humanity's great connector, and it just might keep the world from eating itself.

You know what I worry about? I worry that kids today don't have enough time to just sit and daydream.

We have a lot of depressed people in the world because they don't know what their purpose is in life.

I've always been an angel. Sometimes I transform into a witch only because the filmmaking demands it.

Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought.

Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.

Belief in God is so deranged that it makes absolutely no sense, but it holds people together somehow.

It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. -Ying Ying

His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.

There are two rules in life: Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: Everything is small stuff.

That's the very reason why love is eternal, because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains.

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

My husband says I have too much imagination, but I don't think a writer can have too much imagination!

I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!

I'll always be grateful for 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.' It brought me many, many, readers.

I know they call me a crazy lady, but I'm only interested in making movies and having people see them.

Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally.

(Chicago is) the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap.

In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.

I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.

My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.

The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

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