I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.
I was a bad dater, and up until 8th grade I went to an all boy's school. So, by the time I hit high school I was a bit freaked out by women in general.
Everyone said to Vincent van Gogh, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear. " And you know what he said? "I can't hear you.
Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.
I don't want to, I don't plan my career based on what I want people to believe I'm capable of doing. So I just take things that I think might be good or might be fun to do or might ultimately entertain.
You're doing your kids a disservice if they do get everything they want because that's not the way life's going to go, and I think kids have to have some reality.
Actors and magicians are both performers and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.
She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.
The Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular.
Synesthesia has interested me for a long time, both as a literary device and as a puncturing of the membranes that organize how the world comes into someone's head.
When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.