Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, "You have no need for sight. Listen.

She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.

You can’t pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go.

I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.

I think that people all grow up and have their same personalities, but you can say, "Oh, I can see the roots of this personality, which I didn't like, but then you grew up, and I can still see you as that person, but I do really like you now." Which is sort of how I feel about children - I mean, about children who I knew when I was a child and grew up with, and they're still my friends, and children that I know as children who I see growing up, and every year I like them more.