Growing up, I thought my grandfather was dead. Later, I learned he was alive, but my family pretended he didn't exist because of the terrible way he'….

For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of course, time shi….

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself..

We are the sum total of our experiences..

I'm always relearning things I thought I'd learned for good a while back..

It's engrained in us by society not to love ourselves..

When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living..

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other..

Ive always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters be….

Words, however, are things..

You may be old, you may be in your third act, but you can still be vital and sexual and funny. Life isn't over..

Let's kill somebody to Sinatra! Or to early Elvis!.

There seemed nothing to do but live..

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity..

Faith must be worked at..

You're really playing against yourself. You have to learn what you can control and what you can't, and not let what you can't control affect your con….

Growing up I had lots of role models. Looking back, my parents were my first role models..

When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts..

The public is always right..

The only thing that limits you right now is you..

The more it changes, the more it's the same thing..