“When you lose your Visa card, you get a new card with a new number, an...” — Ellen Ullman Quote

“When you lose your Visa card, you get a new card with a new number, and any new charges with the old number are blocked. Why can't we do the same with Social Security numbers?”

“I was a girl who came into the clubhouse, into the treehouse, with the sign on the door saying, 'No girls allowed,' and the reception was not always a good one.”

“I'm a pessimist. But I think I'd describe my pessimism as broken-hearted optimism.”

“David Lynch's 'Fire Walk With Me' has a scene in it that scared me so bad that I don't remember it. I blocked the memory out - repeatedly! I've seen the film two or three times, and I can never remember what it is that scares me.”

“For 'Never Knowing,' I outlined it and then blocked it out on my office wall with index cards, but things still happened organically.”

“If traffic is congested and our roads are blocked, transportation is slowed and the wheels of economic progress are slowed.”