Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying.

Play is the highest form of research.

Gossip and drama are different stages of the same intoxication… the first is the buzz

As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you.

At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.

Obviously, I think it was an aberration, but it is a reality. We're still a team that won nine games, but this one was a real shock.

Protein has been intensely over-represented on the plate. Now, the garden should be the main drag for main courses.

No competence is required to be a scarecrow!

She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness.

We will work to bring an element of stability to the price of oil.