Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.

It is the perfect wrong time for Jeremy to do to Mirabelle what she had done to him - call him up for a quick fix - because;, in a sense, she is now betrothed. Her first date with someone who treated her well obligates her to faithfulness, at least until the relationship is explored.

I think when the movie `Roxanne' came out, which I also had written, I felt something new that I never felt, which was respect.

Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which women are poisoned or are doing the poisoning. She does not read these books as a romantic lonely hearts turning pages in the isolation of her room, not at all. She is instead an educated spirit with a sense of irony. She loves the gloom of these period novels, especially as kitsch, but beneath it all she finds that a part of her indentifies with all that darkness.

I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.