"I learned how to sit on the couch in front of the fire and read a magazine, just for like eight hours a day, every day. It was... crazy."

“Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.”

Source : Tamora Pierce (2009). “Emperor Mage”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

“Your looks do not define who you are.”

“It's really important to me to go to church, which is sometimes tough when I get back from road trips late on Saturday night, but I try to make it a priority to go every week.”

“You can look at a monkey and see that there is more than a five percent difference in DNA.”

“Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.”

“I think the power of image is in mystery - I endlessly create mysteries, by way of this dystopian message, to initiate intrigue.”

“Marriage is obsolete and a trap.”

Source : "Why French Women Have More Sex Than Their American Sisters" by Debra Ollivier, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.”