Prayers said by good people are always good prayers
Your version of the truth is all that matters.
I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.
I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism by fire was doing the Donald Margulies play Time Stands Still. That for me was a real education because I spent a lot of time with some incredible journalists, war reporters particularly - Bob Woodruff, Dexter Filkins - people who were very helpful in painting the picture for me and reading the accounts of people and what they experienced, a lot of PTSD.
There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.
Madonna is the most famous woman on the planet and has been for a number of decades.
I just love working. I really enjoy the work, whatever it is.
Blessed be sleep! We are all young then; we are all happy. Then our dead are living.
With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge transition. Then, of course, you get well into the '70s and there were women with children working.
We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.