For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.

The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.

There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.

The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.

Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends.

One of the attributes of love . . . is to bring harmony and order out of chaos.

...(Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has cooked you a few bad meals you must never eat again.

We are all connected in spirit, in love and in faith.

Stop feeding the ego food, then it will stop asking for more.

You want to live?Yes!Then quit thinking you're gonna die!

You are not The Giver of My Heart’s Desire.” I took a deep breath and smiled. “You are my heart’s desire.

Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that- that's what life is.

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

Everyone knows you can't see death cooties. Take my word for it, that couch has the biggest, fattest death cooties that ever existed. That couch has the mother of all death cooties. – Lula

There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.

Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.