Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not need it all at once; it's not good for you.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.

Communism is a form of society where the less people have to eat, the more they have to swallow.

You will be dead so long as you refuse to die.

Love-making is an art which must be studied.

A ballerina takes steps given to her and makes them her own. Each individual brings something different to the same role.

[An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.

Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.

The demeaning of dignity is almost the only reason for a fight.

At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.

I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.