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

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

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.

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

...(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.

Accept no limitations and you'll have no limitations.

Pray for your needs, not your greed.

As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.

I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.

Understanding and connection can transcend conflict.

The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.

Concealed sorrow bursts the heart, and rages within us as an internal fire.

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.

Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint.

Power always brings with it responsibility.