There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.

Thus far we have been able to protect [our children] from the deep and enduring traumas that scar the minds and selves of so many of the patients I see. How — how?—can I make it always so?

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

We don’t live in a world that suffers from doubt, but one that suffers from certainty, false certainties that compensate for the well of worldly anxieties and worries.

It was the lowest point of my life. I just kept thinking, 'What have I done to deserve this?' I didn't see the point in living.

I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility -- if there is going to be anything like that in a relationship.

I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.

I've been called many things. But I suppose 'the devil' is as good a name as any.

If you do not feel the bitter cold inside you when you look at the poor trembling out of cold, it means you are lack of compassion; in other words, you are lack of everything!

I want my fluff-fluff! (Bob) Fluff-fluff… (Zarek looked panicked.) (Zarek)