My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.

I'm going to play as much as they want me to, as long as I can put up with what they book me.

It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords.

I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you.

I have been thinking about joining the Peace Corps. That is something that I would absolutely love to do. I think that would be an incredible experience, so that's an avenue that I might want to look at.

Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

I want to be all used up when I die.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.