Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it will kill.

We teach what we need to learn. And we teach it until we get it.

My fear of loneliness is like a disease.

My mothering needed a tad more Mother Theresa and a lot less Lizzy Borden.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Even in war there should be lines you didn't cross.

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.

I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally.

We experience a body experiencing an outer world. But really, the experience of the outer world, as well as the experience of the body, are not happening in two different places.

We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.

One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.

Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.