I am absolutely delighted to have come second. Who cares about winning when you can be second? I love being runner-up.

My courses do not intimidate. Instead, they encourage the player to play well and become more open to the enjoyable aspects of the game.

I loved him the way some people are to be loved - from a distance.

Am I missing an eyebrow?

I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them; I like the books they like.

You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you.

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I can say categorically that all the really excellent leaders I have known were, in my view, excellent listeners.

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

Gillen and McKelvie shared their upcoming The Wicked + The Divine with me, and its amazing. Please tell your retailer this week to order!

I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.

Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.