He wonders what it would be like to belong somewhere and never doubt it.

There is always the fantasy of maternal love, but it does not accommodate a mother's fear of her children.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.

Truly, truly, the grace of God is never without any effect.

Be sure you are right then go ahead.

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.

All the excitements of a prohibited book had their usual effect, one of which, as always, is to expose the fact that the censors don't know what they are talking about.

I'm tired of the industry, tired of playing the whole game - the dressing up, the red carpet. I hate talking about myself.

Lately we have had many losses.

As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed.

People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological.