Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen.

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

The arts reflect profoundly the most democratic credo, the belief in an individual vision or voice . . . The arts' belief in potential gives each of us -- both audience and creator -- pride in our society's ability to nurture individuals.

Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

I don't much like to think that being a bachelor girl limits how you see the world. On the other hand, I know it certainly limits how the world sees you.

The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.