"I think it's a Jewish Yale custom. I wasn't aware that other people celebrated Christmas. My wife was very big on Christmas, and I was very big on my wife."

“Each full, deep inhale creates more space in your body and mind. Each long, exhale moves you directly into that space. The deeper you breathe, the more opens up. It's like opening a door and walking through with each breath. The fuller your breaths the more and more doors open on up, leaving you with the space to walk on in!”

“It was more like having unwanted attention as a child - if you'd walk around, people would recognize you, and it would be in a weird, almost making-fun-type manner.”

Source : "‘Veep’ Star Anna Chlumsky Talks TV Politics, Working With Julia Louis-Dreyfus And Still Being ‘My Girl’". Interview with Maggie Furlong, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2012.

“I think one thing my mother always instilled in me was a sense of individuality. Being an only child, I never thought I had to rely on anyone. I was never afraid to be alone and I was never afraid to be my own person. So when all my friends were like, "Let's smoke weed," I was like, "I'm not doing it." It wasn't because I was trying to be a rebel or because I didn't like it or I was anti-drugs. I just didn't do it because I didn't want to do it, and if I didn't want to do it, I wasn't doing it. That was it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“The whole creative process...is putting opposites together into something that wasn't there before.”

“Psychologists call it "free-floating" anxiety. What contradictory words. Anxiety doesn't free-float. It stalks. It attacks. It lands on you with a thud.”

“You know, Joey, the medication has helped settle you down, but you have been a good kid all along. You are naturally good. I hope you know that about yourself. You have a good heart.”

Source : Jack Gantos (2011). “Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key”, p.153, Macmillan

“Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.”

“However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.”