I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.
Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.
Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.
Every minute we were together, I felt like I was wandering in the dark through a strange house, groping for a light switch. And then, whenever I found one and turned it on, the bulb was dead.
When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.
I was an English major in college, I went to a creative-writing program, and all my life, I really read and thought about fiction as a craft and an art form. I feel like I know a lot about it, and can trust my instincts.
They both seemed to understand that describing it was beyond their powers, the gratitude that spreads through your body when a burden gets lifted, and the sense of homecoming that follows, when you suddenly remember what it feels like to be yourself.
. . . anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.
The United States government does not negotiate with terrorists.
In an infinite universe, every point in space-time is the center.
As an actress, you're living something through the duration of the play and its geography. I've always seen writing the same way. It's like somehow I'm moving through the terrain of the book as a performer.