Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us.

I think we validate our lives through our actions.

Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.

I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.

We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.

People are very afraid of any controversy. We've become very passive spectator types. And when the kids were protesting globilization - quite reasonably - they really got bashed.