Life is just a Box of Chocolates.

When I went to school, my intention was to be a lawyer. When I attended university that was still the clear intention; I was going to be a lawyer. Why? Because it was as far as I could get from my father's antics and world. I thought that the world of the arts probably led people into the kind of behavior I had seen with him and that had resulted in a lot of hard times for my mother and me.

I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.

I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself.

If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen.

When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.