It's hard, omigod remember? Being a kid.

It doesn't matter what story we're telling, we're telling the story of family.

You don’t look like anyone special at all, ” I tell him. And I curse him. And I start a club to hate him. And I make a magic spell to get rid of him.

The thing I've learned is that thinking is not writing.

And the stories we tell ourselves are not the only stories.

I want to go back to the tell-me-again times when I slept in her bed and we were everything together. When I was everything to her. Everything she needed.

I belong here, I tell Toy. I'm hungry for every city block. Every brick building. Every crowded intersection. Electric. I feel brand new.

The secret of living is to find a pivot the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.

Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.

Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is to stand up. It takes a lot of courage.

Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.

If we sang in English, we would have global No. 1s, and no one would say anything.

For me it was a normality having a father who was a world champion. I grew up with that, so it was never extra pressure. And I've never felt the need to emerge from his shadow.