It takes two to have a fight.

Fear is the greatest obstacle to any adventure.

If it’s true we only live once, then raise your red velvet curtain every chance you get.

It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.

Although as a boy I had dreamed about going into space, I had completely forgotten about that until one day I received a call from an astronaut, who suggested that I should join the program.

Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess.

Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

I'm always interested in telling stories that have a message because I really do believe that film is so powerful.

As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

After the crash happened, I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I thought of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, that they must hate me.