"The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book."

“Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it”

“Much of the writing I do about the female body is to remind women, myself included, that they make life and they make death. That strikes me as a far more powerful stance than the weak lies told about mothering.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.”

“I feel like doing basic, casual pieces and then doing really elevated, more unexpected things is becoming more possible. I feel like I do eventually want to be able to address more categories, like active or evening.”

“Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; Oh life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.”

Source : 'The Spanish Tragedy' (1592) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

“I had always functioned with dignity, wanting to appear intelligent, macho, never vulnerable or insecure. But now I realize that... a part of these comic characters is a fundamental part of me too.”

“The next movie I do is not going to be in school.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Why does everybody have to be with somebody? It’s a stupid delusion and a really pathetic way of thinking.”