A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.

Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life.

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love.

You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.

When I'm creating a character, it's a little bit like what my theater teachers used to tell me about Stanislavsky, like if you're using sense memory to do a scene - if you have to cry in a scene, you try to remember something in your life that made you cry and you use that in order to get the tears.

When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.