It always made me sad that there were kids who didn't have homes.

It was at the beginning of all this tabloid frenzy. Our garbage was being gone through, and we were involved in all these chases getting home, and people camping out on our property to get pictures.

I never had that star aura.

Life NEVER slows down.

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.

I never had that reputation of being not accessible.

Thank God I didn't have my children until I was a little bit older.

I just thought that I had had my fill for a while and wanted to have a family. My husband was moving to Chicago for his job. And so I went along. And it was a great thing that I did.

The surge of his ardour swept through him in climatic release, filling her womb with his final, mortal sowing.

Every birth comes out of labour pains. The most difficult task is not about being pregnant with visions

You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to see were too large or even smaller.

Lewis had experienced more trauma than most of his modern readers ever will.

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? ... That's interesting. I hadn't heard that.

We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe.

the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.

The truth is, every sport has been turned into a huge, nihilistic business.

The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.