"I used to worry about losing my husband to another woman. Now, I'm more afraid of losing my nanny to another woman."

“I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . . I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom”

Source : Richard Wright (1997). “Richard Wright Reader”

“I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop.”

“There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.”

Source : "Willem Dafoe: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. February 20, 2012.

“The opportunity to use a computer is great when it is used as one component, or when someone is working on his or her own sounds and approaches. I think it actually has the same restrictions as using the piano or any other instrument in [a traditional] way.”

“Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.”

“Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.”

“Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain.”

“I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music.”