You will find that women who are pregnant often don't want to be and women who aren't desperately envy those who are. Labour wards are always full of very punitive people.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.

As man becomes more technologically advanced, his barbarity becomes even more lethal

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or by duplication

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

I always try to write about believable people.

Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution.

Apple is a wonderful company for its customers and investors. So, too, Pixar. (NeXT, not so much...) But Apple is also an engine of misery for its subcontracted Chinese workers.

There's nothing like the first horseback ride to make a person feel better off.

It all started when I got injured early in my second season. This turned out to be as difficult emotionally as physically.

Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.

The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.