as long as there is a lottery, we the people of the United States must believe in getting something for nothing.

Anger gone as quick as it had come, now I just felt like an idiot. Not that this was the first time, and probably wouldn’t be the last. (Ray)

Gods can only keep their promises in books

The Bible is the Constitution of Christianity.

The optimum human population of earth is zero.

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

I can't think of anything until I've got printed words in front of me. I never wake up in the middle of the night with a song in my head.

I guess I'm sort of spoiled because, most of the things that I get to do, people know that you're a good improviser, so they allow you at least one improv take, and for comedy, that's great.

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.