A word can change a mind, a sentence can change a life and a book can change the world.

Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other.

If I were to suggest a general rule for happiness I would say "Work a little harder Work a little longer Work!"

One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea.'

We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves

Nobody ever tells me to give them a pass or anything. My job is to score goals, and if I don't shoot the puck, I can't score goals.

Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea.

I wanted out of my record deal with EMI. They wanted me to record one type of album; I wanted to record the type of music I wanted to make.

I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.

There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.

[On her thinness:] It's not what you'd call a figure, is it?