"It often takes catching a glimpse of how our life would be without something that's valuable to us for us to realize just how valuable it is."

“If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.”

“I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.”

“I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an eye on several things at once.”

“The most deadly poison of our time is indifference.”

“If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.”

Source : "Nell Freudenberger: ‘The Newlyweds’ Author On Her New Book And The Woman Who Inspired It". Interview with Lori Fradkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2012.

“I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.”

“I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.”

“Robert De Niro taught me how to listen, and how to be part of the conversation. It's not just about reading your lines and saying what's in the script; you have to understand your character, along with the other characters so that you can always respond.”

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