With an endless assortment of children and animals living under one roof, there was always some absurd crisis that gave comic relief to my problems..

I like sweet wines. My idea has always been that when you're young, you like sweet wines; and then you get sophisticated, and you drink dry white; an….

You learn more from ten days of agony than from ten years of content..

No one is going to fire me now. If and when I leave, I'll be the one to make the decision.

You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses..