I was adored [as a kid]. I was always in the air, hurled up and kissed and thrown in the air again. Until I was six, my feet didn't touch the ground. "Look at those eyes! That nose! Those lips! That tooth! Get that child away from me, quick! I'll eat him!" Giving that up was very difficult later on in life.

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

Cat angels are the reason there are no mice angels.

Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.