Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.

You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back.

Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.

Some stuff has to be done even if there is a risk. That's the first important thing I ever found out I didn't find out from my mother

The most important things are the hardest things to say, because words diminish them...

I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.

Hope can kill you but it will not let you die.

We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.

I'm not drunk onstage, although I've done that a couple of times when I was younger. It's partly just the way I talk - I talk like somebody in a rocking chair. I'm your 150-year-old grandmother.

Well, I like to be kept on my toes. I look for a challenge. I don't like to recreate steps that I've already walked. I like to see if I can create something new.

Many many external circumstances are outside of your control, but will affect the outcome, and you have to be OK with that.

Like most writers, I sit in a room and scribble a story and you don't have a connection with the people who take your story, whether it be to the stage or to the screen.

The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be

And what I saw happening is that women don't make one decision to leave the workforce. They makes lots of little decisions really far in advance that kind of inevitably lead them there.

The voice of the people, the voice of God.