Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.

The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.

There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.

As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.

The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.

For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.

Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends.

One of the attributes of love . . . is to bring harmony and order out of chaos.

...(Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has cooked you a few bad meals you must never eat again.

The Road to success is a pattern that mirrors your behavior for the next halfway

Outward beauty is the frame for the masterpiece of your soul.

Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane.

Don't follow your dream - lead it!

I refuse to eat a fried egg if the white is still runny or transparent. I really can't be doing it. I always have to flip it over.

The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.

United won't fall asleep against Liverpool. They'll win it in their sleep

I'm always shocked by the people who I'm attracted to. It's always completely random. I generally like people who are a bit crazy but yeah, that's pretty much my only prerequisite.

Marriage, my dear, is not suicide.

Custom adapts itself to expediency.