Upstairs quotes

  • If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

  • I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.

  • Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.

  • Who could not return from a visit to Jack Vance's world, without feeling that he had been somewhere unique, that he had experienced things unavailable in our mundane world?

  • One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false.

  • Writing is not hard work, it is simply an obsession ...

  • If dance wasn't in my life, it wouldn't be worth living.

  • Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.

  • I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is imperfect and circumscribed.

  • I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.