My wife wanted to call our daughter Sue, but I felt that in our family that is usually a verb.

There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer pressure.

After ten years in therapy, my psychologist told me something very touching, he said, “no hablo ingles.”

I think the we all drown, in one way or another.

We follow our scripts like actors in a very large, very long production. And even with no audience, none of us gives a hint that it isn't real.

What we need now are new stories to share with each other, new tales to live into the world, which is to say, stories to make real by living our own versions of them.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

They were checking us so closely, I could tell what brand of deodorant they were using.

It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If it isn't one thing--it's another! It's always something.

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

I used to sing Bill Monroe songs. And I'd sing Dennis Day songs like songs that he sang on the Jack Benny show.

Life is the risk we cannot refuse.

Even if it's a "talking head documentary" about a social movement or something along those lines, I've always thought of editing the timing and the sense of the piece for the theatrical experience.