"Somebody once observed--and the observation did him credit, whoever he was--that the dearest things in the world were neighbors' eyes, for they cost everybody more than anything else contributing to housekeeping."

“As well as being blind, Ma turned out to have the same mental illness that her mother had had. Between 1986 and 1990, she suffered six schizophrenic bouts, each requiring her to be institutionalised for up to three months.”

“The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.”

“If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.”

Source : "Caitlin Flanagan and Joan Didion: Writers and Mothers". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.

“All photography is propaganda.”

“Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.”

“I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.”

Source : "Alan Ritchson Exclusive Interview SMALLVILLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 19, 2010.

“I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of the same things we remember.”

“I'm not the kind of woman who would love to make soup or knit sweaters. I never cherished that so much.”