It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.

How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.

We are each the love of someone's life.

Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?

So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.

When you were a little girl, Madam.....was this the woman you dreamed of becoming?

The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?

When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.

It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.

I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book or work on your book.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

That’s the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin,” he said with a wink. “Once you’re there, the only thing you can really do is leave again.

The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion.

I would love to meet some directors, and why not do some other movies in America? But, I'm not obsessed with this idea. I'm feeling very free in Europe.

My dream... was to be an eclectic knowledge-gathering person.

You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.

I'm not anxious to starve myself. For me, it's not at all sexy to be ultra-thin.

The one who is truly blessed is the one who wants to make everyone's dreams come true.