“I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.”

“I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it's very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ...”

“I'm not asking that people accept homosexuality. I'm not asking that they believe like I do that it's inborn. I'm not asking that. All I'm saying is don't let these children suffer without a family...”

“I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.”

“I'm not going to let my life revolve around losing weight. I have other things to do.”

“I see myself as Rhoda not Mary Tyler Moore.”

“I collect words--they are sweets in the mouth of sound.”

“By its definition, sound is interactive. It is you connecting with the frequency of something greater or richer through hearing. Likewise, when your sound goes out, you can no longer hear the sound...”

“If the sound of your voice is not so loud it cannot be ignored, you arent quite there yet. Youll continue to try this for a little while and then switch to that. Youll chase everything that boasts ...”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”