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“I want to see 61, and one day I want to see 90, so that means I have to keep having birthdays. So what am I supposed to do? Be ashamed because I'm getting older? No, how about I embrace myself, my age, the space that God has put me in, and learn from and teach other people and we support each other as women, because we're all beautiful - different sizes, shapes, colors - and we celebrate ourselves as we grow older and become better.”
Source : Source: www.ebony.com
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“I believe that at the beginning of the life of every artist there is some kind of trauma. We have a problem and all of our life we try to speak about this problem. My trauma was historical. When I was three or four, all the friends of my parents were survivors of the Holocaust; they spoke a lot about that. My father was hiding during the war, it was something totally present when I was a boy. It is sure that it has made me.”
Source : "To die is very strange". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014. 
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“The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families.”
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“Diversification is a surrogate - and a damn poor surrogate - for knowledge, elements of control, and priceconsciousness.”
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“If I didn't play international cricket, I would have joined the Army.”
Source : Source: gonnabecrazyforyou.blogspot.com
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“My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.”
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“There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.”
Source : Scott Simon (2010). “Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption”, p.7, Random House
