I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.

We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up!

I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming majority of scientists, are people who would hold one particular view because that's all they're exposed to.

I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius.

Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do.

I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

Just look at who won the third debate between Bush and Gore. I knew Bush won, because people liked him more. People just didn't like Gore. But all the journalists thought Gore won big, he cleaned the guy's clock.

You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East.

I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing.