Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

It was my father who could do no wrong. So I didn't think of it as, oh, look, my father's a violent man.

The past is interesting to me because it's been dumbed down or flattened out, or academically nitpicked so you can't get any life out of it, you just get data.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

...when the little boy discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier -- that only birds and planes could fly -- he lost all interest in himself.

Shallow believers prefer a shallow God.