My writing method is to sit in a very small hut absolutely alone. I write in total solitude. And I write on paper, on hand, and then it gets typed. Normal for me.

I think yes is the most beautiful and necessary word in the English language.

To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin.

I've always traveled with the films because I want the audience to be my teacher so that I can learn for the next one.

The female struggle implies the black struggle, it implies the struggle with anti-Semitism, it implies all of the other struggles. That is the only possible way to think about human liberation.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

They say a story loses something with each telling.

It's just funny that anybody would care at all to take apart the words that I write. It's kind of cool!

The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas.

Only intimacy with the self will bring about true healing.

As an artist, you're always trying to reach a new height, do something new, try something you haven't done before, and push your boundaries.

I went into television because I hated it so, and I thought there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to nurture those who would watch and listen.

There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.

And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die.

Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby?