"I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather."

“The pilot is easy. It is 30 minutes, 20 minutes. It is not that much to juggle.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com

“I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music.”

Source : "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

“So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.”

“Muirfield without a wind is like a lady undressed. No challenge.”

“The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.”

Source : Jonathan Messinger (2007). “Hiding Out”, p.179, featherproof books

“Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.”

Source : "Glamour's January Cover Star Claire Danes on Why She's Happier in Her 30s" by Logan Hill, www.glamour.com. December 3, 2013.

“With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just have a take it one step at a time and know that it's all right to keep going - you can always fix it.”

“In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from that of the subject; the one being the virtue of the rational, and the other of the irrational part. Now, it is obvious that the same principle applies generally, and therefore almost all things rule and are ruled according to nature.”