Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.

Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.

Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.

Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.

Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.

Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet?

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one lived next door. We thought they were kind of a minority.

The only recognizable feature of hope is action.

There is no medicine like hope no incentive so great and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.

TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.

I go with the most interesting thing that comes my way,I don't expect it to come from India to tell you the truth, but if it did, fine by me.

Those who understand evil pardon it.

Cerevisiam Bibat! (drink beer for health)

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

I hate golf. I do not understand how anyone can enjoy it, much less love it.

One, I had never worked with John Woo before and I wanted to see what that was like, and two, Ben Affleck is a friend, so it would be fun to work with him again.

If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy.