He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

The scandal's so unbelievable that I cannot repeat it here.

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight.

I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts.

I never thought that I was very intelligent.

I do tend to lose track since the kids are out of school.

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex.

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.

I wasn't a child at 13, were you?

My husband and I were very in love, and I had no reason to suspect that his interests lay anywhere else.

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they both lead to the same destination.

The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.

A plan is the transport medium which conveys a person from the station of dreams to the destination of success. Goals are the transport fees.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has changed so much, and to really do a movie with, like, drug dealers or drug smugglers is kind of almost quaint at this point.

Everywhere we go, people recognize me.

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

Cosmic religiousness is the strongest and most noble driving force of scientific research.

Every season we try to do something new. And not for gimmicks. We feel the show has to evolve and keep changing.

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

The Golan Heights is an area in the north of the State of Israel that has no part in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

I don't like the selfie because it's too close. There ain't no people with arms long enough to do a selfie of me.

Finally, let us understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.

When I'm in certain moods, a conversation will start up in my head, and suddenly I'll realize that the language has reached a very high and interesting level, and then lines and stanzas will just kind of appear, full-blown.

Getting buried alive will always be my claim to fame.

I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and write one specific kind of book, but to write the kind of books you love to read.

The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.

The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.

The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.

Like life, revenge can be a messy business. And both would be much simpler if only our heads could figure out which way our hearts will go. But the heart has its reasons, of which reason cannot know.

I like the 'Cirque du Freak' books - 'Tunnel of Blood' by Darren Shan. They're set in England. It's about vampires.

We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

The kids have all seen it on DVD or videotape.

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.