I walk around with a hat, sunglasses, and sunscreen all the time.

With the red hair, you get the white skin; it's a package deal. The cons are that you never look particularly attractive on the beach. The pros are in a softly lit room, you look pretty.

I'll tell you my routine - it's really exciting. I feed, I burp, I change diapers, I pump. And then I have a tiny window of time to myself.

~I use humor instead of getting into that whole yes and no thing all the time. It's about just getting them to laugh rather than getting in power struggles.~

What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.

I have good genes in my family, so we'll see just how long I'll be around.

I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet.

If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or doesn't need to be done.

I really love and it is important to me to be physically fit.

It's kind of ironic that if I get my Ph.D., I'll be a real doctor

I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.

Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing

At various points in our lives, or on a quest, and for reasons that often remain obscure, we are driven to make decisions which prove with hindsight to be loaded with meaning. (225)

The means of effective communication are being expropriated from the intellectual worker.

I was kind of a weird homie; I was a weird kid. Nobody in my family loved books. I'm the only one.

Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.

I live cinema and passionately love music, and my efforts in both these crafts are unfolding.

I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had telepathic powers.

I think the fans would love anybody who played Jacob. I'm just lucky to be the one who got the chance.

I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I never reread them.

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.