You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.

But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.

I'm a worst-case scenario person. I'm only interested in a story because I kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen.

No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.

You live your life at the time you live it -- you don't have much of an overview when what's happening to you is still happening.

Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.

When you legislate personal belief, you're in violation of freedom of religion.