Curiosity is called curiosity because of how curiously it can creep into people’s behavior no matter what dangers are around.

I don't know about you, but I find the idea of a school at night time - imagining the silent classrooms in total darkness and the playgrounds left lonesome and bare - creepily peculiar.

I don't know if you've ever been covered head to toe in prickle bush, but let me tell you, it's not a pleasant experience, as I'm sure you can imagine.

You can't show me the Earth from space and fly right past the moon, entice me into this magical machine and invite me to come with you, and then ask me to stay behind!

Reading relaxes me.

Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

There is always someone worse off than yourself.

In the Bible, the race of life is never considered from the viewpoint of speed... We are to run it with patience.

It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an active experience.

They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.

Interest makes all seem reason that leads to it.

Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.

He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.