“The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.”

“My mother was a teacher.”

“I don't hate L.A., but I'm nervous about becoming one of those people who has a ferocious interest in how films did at the box office that weekend and, you know, would want to meet for egg-white om...”

“Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.”

“For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.”

“Courage is soldiers fighting on the front line, or people living on the bread line.”

“What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.”

“Sky, wait. The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary way Sky.”

“I'm not going to do it again," Lena Marquez whispered to the red purse across the hall from her nestle of blankets. "Never again.”

“The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155)”

“Ego like bile over taste buds. Get it out or hold it in. It's the suspension will drive you nuts, churn your gut.”

“War within ourselves is always a prelude to war outside ourselves. All war starts within our own hearts. When our egos are inflated or our desires insatiable, we go to war with the other for the sa...”

“When your situation seems pathless and hopeless, this happens just because your mind is not talented enough to find a hope and to create a path!”

“i am hopelessly in love with a momentthat has not come yetit existssomewheresome placejust not herejust not now”

“She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this.And when hope is gone, time is punishment.”