Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

Better immersion than to live untouched.

It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

Not to have an audience is a kind of death.

It's hard for me to talk about the terrible things that have happened in my lifetime because they didn't need to be.

It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.

Strange how potent cheap music is.

Earth is a natural pearl that will always give us Joy.

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears.

As an actor, you are in a unique position because you’re not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.

Indian president does not determine policy. Here President is not the policy maker. In the name of the president, the cabinet takes the policy decision.

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

Relationships end, but they don't end your life.

I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended.