The more things you own, the more they own you.

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

The career of a movie star consists of helping everyone else forget their troubles. Using charm and beauty and good cheer to make life look easy.

The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.

A male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.

Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.