A lot can change in the editing room.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

I would say chemistry between two people is very powerful. You have to fight to keep it, but if you don't have it, you can't manufacture it.

Come with me, ' Mom says.To the library. Books and summertimego together.

Will your dad freak if I kiss you good-bye?” he asked.

You know my children that humanity advances only by forming itself an ideal and endeavoring to realize it. Every passion has its ideal which is modified by that of the whole.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

I had long hair when I was a teenager.

I'm a big believer of daylight in the studio.

From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony. This universal Frame began.

I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying neighborhood and not Hollywood.

Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.