Despite being what would now be called a deprived child in a one parent family, I did not grow up with an urge to smash windows or to bash old ladies over the head in order to steal handbags.

"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it."

There was nothing, just this deathly, terrible silence in the dark night with the stars overhead.

I was only seven but I remember thinking that everything in the world was standing still.

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.

Mr. President, it is time for you to give me back my country. You can either continue to make fools of the people who elected a tyrant like you or let the country rise phoenix-like from the ashes.

Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere?

You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.

The church has been planted as a paradise in this world.

I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.

[On social change:] What I say is that if one country is annexed by another, its nationality is not changed overnight. Social processes are often very, very slow.

I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds up in a museum. It's like finding a rare animal and putting it in the zoo.

Things involved with a computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now, if it were a nice ogre or some such I'd be more in my element.

Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don't catch it he'll correct you in public.