"I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory."

“I really like The Catcher in the Rye a lot.”

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

“The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.”

Source : Carol Bly (1988). “Letters from the Country”, HarperCollins

“hardly anything in L.A. was close to anywhere else you wanted to go.”

Source : Hilma Wolitzer (2013). “Tunnel of Love: A Novel”, p.14, Open Road Media

“Adrenaline is an amazing thing.”

“Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery”

Source : Sappho (1965). “Lyrics in the Original Greek”, Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor books [1965]

“Music- what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!”

“The thing about TV is it's a meritocracy. I love that aspect of it - and I've had shows that have gone on the air and been canceled. I've seen the good and the bad of it.”

“I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.”

Source : Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.79, New York Review of Books