"When I was 27, if I didn't put 15 things in one dish I wasn't happy."

“I had auditioned for 'Saturday Night Live' two or three times before and never really saw myself there. I looked up to Belushi and Bill Murray and Aykroyd and I never saw myself as in their world.”

Source : "Dana Carvey talks parenting, “SNL” and Carlmont High cross country". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, blog.sfgate.com. April 30, 2010.

“The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known.”

“When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing.”

Source : "Women and History Part I: The Creation of Patriarchy with Gerda Lerner". Interview with Jeffrey Mishlove, www.intuitionnetwork.org.

“By showing a picture, you're showing an x-ray of your heart.”

“If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.”

“I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker”

“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.”

“It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.”