Gertrude Stein

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

The stage is a routine. It keeps you grounded, like a metronome. I find that soothing.

Kids from financially distressed households are twice as likely to have to repeat a grade and more than two-and-a-half more times to struggle with poor health later in life.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.