Ciss says, 'People have less emotions than actors think they have. For much of the time we hide our emotions, we haven't time for emotions. Our brains work so much faster than our emotions.

I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.

When it comes to the challenges of the actual process, I soldier on as best I can, on my own.

What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.

A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.

The organism feeds on negative entropy.

The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.

The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.

My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.

The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and puts them out.

Reflect as if you have all of time, even when time is short.

When you play with the best in the world, it is important that you not lose focus. You must be fully focused. Even a minor error could result in a massive defeat.