The drugstore is a wonderful place to see all manner of ailments.

Because I live in California now, I find my musings really being centered in this world.

When you stand outside, you look around and find that the people you're with live on the fringes.

Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

When we talk about God, I think what most of us mean is some greater thing, some higher power that can help us access our own strength or give us strength.

I was in the emergency room twice with heart palpitations and panic attacks. As one of my actor friends pointed out: your body doesn't know that you're making art. You think about struggle and challenge and you imagine yourself weighing 302 pounds and being restricted and in despair. Your body doesn't know that that's not the case.

If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead.