Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges.

I'm low-key. I like my privacy.

My responsibility is to follow the law.

'Basic Black with Pearls' contains overt references to Virginia Woolf and covert ones to feminist classics like Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper.' The scholar Ruth Panofsky, who writes extensively about Weinzweig, sees echoes of George Eliot.

I'm a really slow writer. What I need to start writing on any given day, is a kernel, a line of dialogue, anything I can sense concretely.

The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.

I was a class clown, but I'm not a bully.

Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.

The end of 'City Lights' makes me cry every time I see it - when Charlie Chaplin walks by the shop window and the once-blind girl brings him a flower and pins it to his lapel.

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

After 'Broadcast News,' I could have played that same part, but I didn't want to. So I didn't follow it up with a hit.

I was nearly 40 when I published my first book. I was a slow starter - or rather, I was slow to gather my work together, though I had published translations, mainly of the Italian poet Montale, by then.

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

I think 'Apricot Princess' actually came out before 'Flower Boy.'

Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.

I like fashion, but it's not something that I follow religiously.

I worked on a show called 'West Wing' before. I didn't work with Aaron Sorkin, but he created the show and set the tenor of the show, which was you follow the words of the script perfectly because there's a dramaturgical thing behind it.

These companies are in it for their dollars, and whatever is hot that is what they follow.