One of the attributes of love . . . is to bring harmony and order out of chaos.

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.

The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.

There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.

The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.

For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.

Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends.

...(Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has cooked you a few bad meals you must never eat again.

To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the aftertaste of her still lingers.

Never marry someone who doesn’t love the movies you love. Sooner or later, that person will not love you.

The only way to stop hurting other people is to stop hurting yourself.

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

I pray God it is the answer I want, but if not I will accept any answer at all and try to be grateful for what I had.

I am thankful to Nichia Chemical Corporation and its founder Nobu Ogawa, who gave me the research opportunity to create a blue LED.

Without conflict there is no plot, without hope there is no story

A man should be free to do what he wants to do, as long as it doesn't hurt others.

I didn't mislead people. I know I didn't lie and I have got to establish that.

Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.