As is always the case, events do not conform easily to the generalizations historians produce to try to make sense of the past.

Men are the product of their historical experience, limited in their choices by who and where they are in history.

Pain or love or danger makes you real again....

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom and lakes die.

If you can't write your message in a sentence you can't say it in an hour.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.

It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool.

lf you ever dare to fight against hatred, then there is but one weapon: Love.

My philosophy is, 'Show up, shut up, and do your job,' and if you do it to the satisfaction of your director and the public, you're likely to be able to do it again.