“You know, once you’ve stood up to cancer, everything else feels like a pretty easy fight.”

“Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.”

“Acting is a bit like cycling. Once you’ve got the hang of it, you just peddle on.”

“Pretty pretty please,
Don't you ever ever feel
Like you're less than
Fuckin' perfect?
Pretty pretty please,
If you ever ever feel
Like you're nothing,
You're fuckin' perfect to me.”

“Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.”

“General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.”

“The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.”

“Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.”

“Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.”

“Only death can finish the fight, everything else only interrupts the fighting.”