Instead, we try to give them affection, confidence and guidance, more or less in that order, because experience has shown us that those are their most immediate needs.

Today I was a teacher, employed. True, I was also a teacher untried, but that could also be an advantage. I would learn, by God I’d learn. Nothing was going to stop me.

So long as we learn it doesn’t matter who teaches us, does it?

The betrayal I now felt was greater because it had been perpetrated with the greatest of charm and courtesy.

Before I started working here I drank smoked and used bad language. Thanks to this job I now have good reason.

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

Will has always been the brighter burning star, the one to catch attention — but Jem is a steady flame, unwavering and honest. He could make you happy.

Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere.

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.

I worked all through my 20's, all through my 30's, so I've been lucky to be working.

Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear.

Don't worry that you can't seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You'll get better and better.

To protest, I stood in the place of a waste receptacle and opened my mouth. That's how I lost my virginity *laughs*

That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.