Every time I went to the doctor when I was in my twenties, he repeated the same thing to me: don't wait too long to have children.
What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.
Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.
Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.
It's time for compassionate Americans to send a wake-up call to their members of Congress and demand passage of legislation to end the wholesale slaughter of America's horses once and for all.
Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work.
When you're a kid, your first five or six years, you converge all the time. School is about training that out of you, especially universities.
The last watch I wore felt like a handcuff. When I need to know the time, I check my cell phone.
Politicians have always been required to be fake, but now the career havoc wrought by a stray, flying sound bite means they have to sustain their fakeness all the time.
Sergeant Prendergast: [Standing on the hill near the convenience store] Hey, Mr. Lee! D-FENS!
Henry Hill: Jimmy was the kind of guy that rooted for bad guys in the movies.
Henry Hill: I swear to my fucking mother, if you touch her again, YOU'RE DEAD.
Private Jack Bell: You see that hill? Second Lieutenant Whyte: Yeah.
The last thing businessmen want to do is sit in a room filled with other businessmen. A room full of money is a pretty boring sight - unless it's yours, of course.
The institutional investor remains the bigger influence on individual trades simply because the institutional investor has more money to support the order and that will have more of an impact on the stock.
Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.
When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.
Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
