The world we write is but a dappled expression of the one in which we live.

In doubt fear is the worst of prophets.

We must bear what Heaven sends.

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding

Though with Bridget Jones's Baby: the Diaries, I'd like to make it clear that I did not ever get pregnant by two men.

It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

Under his spurning feet, the road Like an arrowly alpine river flowed And the landscape sped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind.

I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.