For plain and fancy worrying, give me a new mother every time.

I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

I delight in what I fear.

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.

We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.

a sick room is at times too sacred a place for a friend's knock, timid as that is.

I love all my Wrights and it would be impossible to say which one I love more, but if you really pushed me, it would be Joe.

There is no best teacher. Life itself is the teacher. There is no best method. All that matters is that it works.

I was talking to Jesus, and I said, Jesus, I feel like no one will ever accept me. And Jesus looked at me and said, You know what my theory is? Accept me or go to hell.

I've always done a few things at once. I've always been a musician and an actor, at the same time.

You can work well with people that you may not get on well with in life because it's a parallel realism.

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

Passion is power, And, kindly tempered, saves. All things declare Struggle hath deeper peace than sleep can bring.