A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson.

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.

You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form of journalism you're involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

So much better to travel than to arrive.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.