Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience.

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.

Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.