Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.

That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

Better immersion than to live untouched.

It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

Not to have an audience is a kind of death.

It's hard for me to talk about the terrible things that have happened in my lifetime because they didn't need to be.

Pain has a threshold and so does death.

I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.

Sometimes people say oh you did one of my favorite movies and I will ask them what the other one is and it's always something that I totally hate.

I'd walk and think about my entire life. I'd find my strength again, far from everything that had made my life ridiculous.

Games are the most social of all things on the web.

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

to live means to lack something at every moment

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

Fearless is falling madly in love again, even though you've been hurt before.