Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

There is nobody in the world that you can't get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You've got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.

It was the most haunting room I've ever seen. Because you know what's in it? All the left­overs, all the paraphernalia that the different condemned men had had with them in the "holding" cells.

Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is.

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.

Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies.

All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.