"I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't."

“I think when I'm in love, I really am very good with calling, little faxes, and visiting and I really put a lot of effort into it. I'm really not the one that's not available because of work and I'm very sad when I actually leave.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I'm supposed to be this musical genius and everything, but I can't really work the car seat that well.”

“Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.”

Source : Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

“Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.”

“Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses? How soft is this one, how subtle this is, How fluttering swift as a bird's kiss that is, As a bird that taps at a leafy lattice; How this one clings and how that uncloses From bud to flower in the way of roses.”

Source : Arthur Symons (1919). “Poems”

“Writing gets easier once you know your allies and banish your enemies.”

“I've always loved books. My mother told me that before I could talk, I'd babble in my crib as I turned the pages of my little cloth books, apparently telling stories to go along with the pictures.”

“For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.”