“The most important thing in convoluted families, I learnt as I wrote, ...” — Allegra Huston Quote

The most important thing in convoluted families, I learnt as I wrote, is that the child feels loved. I knew from a young age that I was a problem which required constant solving; but I never felt unloved. I was lucky.

Losing one's mother to a car crash at age four isn't a readily accessible idea of good luck, but I've come to accept it as the condition that was required for my luck to fall into place.

I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.

If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to fill it up.

We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

A potentially useful property of forecasts based on cointegration is that when extended some way ahead, the forecasts of the two series will form a constant ratio, as is expected by some asymptotic economic theory.

I have a special place in my heart for working moms - it's a constant pull on your heartstrings.