"When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?"

“I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.”

“I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.”

“I've always done 'the wrong thing' and had a pretty wonderful time doing it.”

Source : Guitar World, May 2000.

“[Composers] Mark [Shaiman] and Scott [Wittman] are unreal”

Source : Source: www.etonline.com

“Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.”

Source : Radclyffe Hall (1956). “The well of loneliness”, Anchor

“I sleep with my baby blanket, Kiki, that my nana made for me.”

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

“The moons of Uranus seem to have got a twist.”

Source : Robert Stawell Ball (2010). “Star-Land: Being Talks with Young People about the Wonders of the Heavens”, p.227, Cambridge University Press

“My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just me - their granddaughter, niece, etc., and they're older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded.”