Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good.

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.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Answer me immediately or I'll start cutting away everything that's pretty on you...and then put it back.

our feet are grape-squashed in memoriesour skins are still flushedfrom the touch of summer’s lips.

Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.

What I reach for first when I play is sound. Technique maybe, but there is technique in sound.

Hermione is so close to who I am as a person that I've never really had to research a role. I'm literally rediscovering what it means to be an actress.

Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read.

The will of man is the will of God.

I really do like working very closely with a director and developing characters.

There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.