Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

A man works for his own dreams but a great man works for their dreams.

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.

Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.

Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.

It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose.

He was an answer to a question she'd forgotten to ask.

Worship is not simply a feeling that is experienced; it must also involve understanding and the mind.

Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.