Like some huge, mutant chicken–I sat there hatching a gas-egg the size of a planet.

Principal Totty was one of those people who frown while they’re speaking, and then smile at the end of each sentence. It was weird. It was like there were two different people inside her brain.

By the time she awoke she couldn’t even remember if she had a dream or a nightmare. There had only been a deathlike peace.

Millions today want salvation, but on their own terms. They want to come their own way, and so we have hundreds of schemes and plans devised by men to regain paradise.

You can't have understanding without having empathy, and you can't have empathy without losing money.

Being gifted needs courage.

All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.

Coming in as a veteran, I'd like to finish with a gold medal.

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.

All the people who knock me down, only inspire me to do better.

Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.