Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?

And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once.

And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.

I was about seven years old. In my mother's garage I used to create plays and star in them and charge the neighborhood kids five cents to see them. It was a lot of fun.

You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.

Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.

I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to play as frequently.

Everybody talks about the internet being the ultimate repository of cooking knowledge. But it's not. It sucks.

As believers we all have an opportunity and moral obligation to recognize our spiritual common ground; to rise above our differences; to combat prejudice and intolerance.

Acting after being asked is compliance. Acting without being asked is kindness.

The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.

I went to a Catholic school with 40 kids total. There were no cliques, but I suppose I was the sporty good girl.

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.