When there's a terrible murder people who are interviewed say, 'This has always been a quiet neighborhood.' That is so dumb and uninformed! The earth is not a quiet neighborhood. There isn't anyplace that's a quiet neighborhood. People are asking themselves how to stay neat in the cyclone.

Words are nets through which all truth escapes.

Life is all getting used to what you're not used to.

I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.

Teachers inspire the smallest hearts to grow big enough to change the world.

Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.

I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.