Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

The moving finger writes and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit can cancel half a line of it.

I really don't have favorites I'm just a fan of movies period.

I eat as much as the next girl but I work my butt of in the gym every morning! The key is moderation. I splurge on the weekend. A big bowl of pasta and a delicious slice of cake for dessert are my favorites.

In the name of Hypocrites doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid anything you see in your formative years is more powerful because it really stays with you forever. The second category is films that I saw while I was learning the craft of motion pictures.

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge and if he's good the older he gets the better he writes.

For someone who writes fiction in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious it's essential to be free.

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage I think that lead us from an innocent world of contentment drunkenness and good humor to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.