I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.
My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.
And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived.
I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.
TV cameras seem to add ten pounds to me. So I make it a policy never to eat TV cameras.
It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.
So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.
A major puzzle for which nobody has an answer is this: is there some size at which the planets change their nature from water-rich planets like Neptune, to rocky planets like the Earth? We have found two planets that are the size of the Earth in radius, but they are very close to their host star, so water on the surface would evaporate away. How do you make planets like the Earth in a universe that has far more water than iron and nickel? It's possible that Earth, with its mostly rocky composition, is rare in the universe.
I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.
And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I.
Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be able to see it. Your eyes are covered with layers of thought. To experience the beauty of the flower you have to be in a state of meditation, not in a state of mentation. You have to be silent, utterly silent, not even a flicker of thought - and the beauty explodes, reaches to you from all directions. You are drowned in the beauty of a sunrise, of a starry night, of beautiful trees.