I don't know whether I could visit a new neighborhood now and have a kid's set of observations about a place. I no longer can really think like a child, though I can remember thinking like one.

Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.

Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

Pajamas are good for the soul.

The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together.

She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.

Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.

Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean.

Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other.

I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.

Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

What a curious power words have.

Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.

Fashion exerts more power in science than it does on the shape of hats.

In every man there is something of all men.

Oh, jeez, please kill that metaphor,...Or kill me. One or the other.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I love drama. My passion is drama. It always has been. I love telling those sorts of stories.

Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.

I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.

Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.