...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.

You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.

I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget. That no matter what budget you're doing, you should be dreaming bigger than the budget you have, and then it's a matter of reigning it in to the reality. You try to make things count.

If you can be that link to other people that came before you and the ones that come after, then you have to honor that link. If you are doing what somebody else tells you to do and you have success, it's horrible. And if you are doing what other people tell you to do and you fail, it's equally horrible.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

I find I'm waking up really early now, just to read. Waking up at ungodly hours. But I try to keep up, religiously. When I was a kid, it used to be a book a day. Then a book a week. Now it's like a book every two weeks. But I read every day.

It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.