When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

My mom introduced me to science-fiction.

I just think the more were observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition.

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

We need to make sure that we never get too busy with life that we don’t have time to live.

The only thing mothers have in common with each other is the fact that they slept with a man while they were ovulating without the appropriate protection

If a warden sees cigarette litter being thrown from a car, they will take the number and trace the owner to send them a fine.

And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection.

That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

I'm actually scared of horror movies. I'm kind of Scaredy Cat when it comes to that stuff.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

When you're a kid, you listen to what your family is listening to. For my family, it was bluegrass.

All things come to those who wait.