I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

Open your wings, fly toward the sky To live in your dream, even if it is high

They will never stop talking about you! No one can tell your story like you can!

I want to talk to you and be random with you and be ridiculous with you.

Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.

Speak louder than the words before you, and give them meaning no one else has found. The role we play is so important.

You can't beat somebody with nobody.

It's what I always dreamed of: that you can make TV and everyone would get out of your way and you follow your vision without watering it down.

Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.

Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.

The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education.