"Traveling would be quite perfect if only one could go home at night."

“When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.”

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

“A great many people fall in love with or feel attracted to a person who offers the least possibility of a harmonious union.”

Source : Rudolf Dreikurs (2013). “The Challenge of Marriage”, p.80, Taylor & Francis

“I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid.”

“I believe we are powerful but we don't use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.”

“I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.”

“It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy because I'm educated in the West and I have lost some of my basic decency as an African woman.”

“I know that I am not the only person who is alone in the world. I know that others sorrow in the night. That others pick up a razor and slice into their own skin, with greater or lesser success. I know that others look at their lives and see only silent failure and disconsolation, feeding the cat, checking their email, doing the crossword. I know that I am not the only person to have lived a life like mine. I am aware. (212)”

Source : Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.212, Algonquin Books

“The magic of drama is infinitely more powerful than the magic of trickery. It is as available to the conjurer as it is to the actor. The only difference is that actors take it for granted, whereas few conjurers are even aware that it exists.”