"I was really hyperactive as a kid and no one knew how or where I got all this energy."

"I'm obsessed with hula-hooping. I do it for 20 minutes a day. I don't use the old-fashioned hollow plastic kind we had when we were kids, but I discovered a new one at Danskin that's smaller and weighted."

"I didn't even think about movies where I came from. I wanted to be on the stage."

"Some people fall in love with their co-stars and feel things that they never thought they would feel for them because they are touching."

"Sex is a big question mark. It is something people will talk about forever."

"To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life."

"Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted."

"In America you need a bodyguard to go out."

"She had always kept things to herself. That was one sure truth."

"He was thinking that in nearly every person there was some special physical part kept always guarded."

"Sometimes he thought that he had talked so much in the years before to his children and they had understood so little that now there was nothing at all to say."

"To me it is the irony of fate,” she said. “The way they come here. Those moths could fly anywhere. Yet they keep hanging around the windows of this house."

"Nothing had really changed....The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow."

"It was almost three o'clock, the most stagnant hour in the day or night."

"You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real."

"That was all he wanted for himself – to give to her. Biff's mouth hardened. He had done nothing wrong but in him he felt a strange guilt. Why? The dark guilt in all men, unreckoned and without a name."

"To the lost, transfixed among the self-inflicted ruins, All that is non-air (if this indeed is not deception) Is agony immobilized. While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world."

"And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow."

"I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror."

"His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years."

"It was like she was so empty there wasn't even a feeling or thought in her."

"It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see."

"There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form."

"It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated."