"I'm still writing songs but leaving them a lot more open and not trying to control every nuance of it."

“Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.”

“When you play the same character for a long time, you have a shorthand. You get onto the set, you put on your outfit and two-thirds of your work is done because you've built on that work for so many years.”

“Disturbers are never popular - nobody ever really loved an alarm clock in action, no matter how grateful he may have been afterwards for its kind services!”

Source : Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.10, University of Toronto Press

“I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write.”

“I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.”

“The person viewing your work has no idea what the scene really looked like, nor do they care...”

“Regarding the fundamental investigations of mathematics, there is no final ending ... no first beginning.”

“If women were in charge of all the world's nations, there would be sincerely believe this - no military conflicts, and when there WAS a military conflict, everybody involved would feel just awful and there would soon be a high-level exchange of notes written on greeting cards with flowers on the front, followed by a Peace Luncheon”