Quotes About Reflection

Periods of nostalgia are impossible to predict or explain.

I think it's impossible to predict the future but it is possible to look at the past and see how one can do differently from what one's ancestors have done and learn from their mistakes, and one can see how even though there are enormous forces which stop one doing what one wants to, there are little holes in which the individual can do something.

We didn't lose as many lives as had been predicted although we're still in the process of finding those we lost.

I've ceased making predictions on things because we'll see how they turn out.

My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and then write longhand, into a notebook. I prefer paper and pen because it feels closer to my brain.

When I'm writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

I still prefer horses to human beings.

I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.

I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to.

I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?

I am loathe to get married again. I've been married enough; I just prefer to forget it.

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.

The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.

Some people see life as a game of chess, while others prefer to see it as a game of cricket; but the longer I live, the more I think of it as a game of Consequences.

In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don't have a Seder or I don't light the menorah, I feel a loss.

I'm trying to be in the moment and really enjoy my pregnancy. I feel really lucky.

Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.

The experience of pregnancy - it depends on your situation, but it can be quite isolating.

During the pregnancy and stuff, I knew I had a daughter coming but when she finally got here that is when it really hit me. Ever since that day, I look at life a lot differently.

I had placenta previa, which had me on bed rest for almost four to five months after the pregnancy. I just started putting on weight and falling into some kind of place in my head because it went from shows, award functions and a glamorous lifestyle to just not being able to handle what pregnancy was doing to me.

If someone gets married at 15, they're either dumb or pregnant. I was both.

There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.

What calmed me down finally was when my girlfriend got pregnant.

Most creative thing I've ever done? Got somebody pregnant.