What we want most is to be held...and told..that everything (everything is a funny thing, is baby milk and papa's eyes, is roaring logs on a cold morning, is hoot owls and the boy who makes you cry after school, is mama's long hair, is being afraid and twisted faces on the bedroom wall)...is going to be alright.

It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two.

Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.

Sicily is more beautiful than any woman.

I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it; but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.

Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.

I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.