Truth is always a turning point.

It is much more difficult to deal with the truth about your life when you have no idea that you have feet of clay and it suddenly begins to rain.

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.

I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.

My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.

If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare.

Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

No one is talking about occupying Iraq for five to ten years.

It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.