Sorrow ages you prematurely. When you're in emotional debt, you're pessimistic about the future and, even in your green years, long to return to the past to remedy the shortfalls of love and opportunity you suffered.

People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.

A home is a place in time. And no place stays the same after you finally grow up and leave it. No place can ever change as much as the person who grows up there.

There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

You get more irrationality within the family and in consumer behavior than you get, say, in the behavior of firms in their purchases.

I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life.

You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.