... when things get rough, a breakthrough is just on the other side of the pain.

I'm an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I woke up--sociologically, politically, and creatively--I could no longer take those parts and look in the mirror.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

I simply channeled a character, this time I allowed the character to inhabit me.

Audrey was the kind of person who when she saw someone else suffering tried to take their pain on herself. She was a healer. She knew how to love. You didn't have to be in constant contact with her to feel you had a friend. We always picked up right where we left off.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

New York was the only city I knew in the world where you could be desperately lonely at nine in the morning, crossing the street for a bagel at Gristede's, and find that seven hours later you were drinking Irish coffee at P.J. Clarke's with all the friends you had inherited along the way.