Can you imagine a silence so desperate to be heard?

Young people think they know it all, but a lot of old salts around know they don't.

Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.

We will spend the rest of the day inventing a kind of love that no longer exists in the world, a kind of love no army can pillage at the outposts, no rumor could bring to its knees like a traitor.

Maybe I should just lie quietly inside you while our old selves slip in and out of the back rooms of the soul.

Pruned my subconscious. Discovered new shoots.

Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow.

A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated, ' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.

I get up at seven for the make-up, Rita Hayworth at six, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis at five. I don’t want to know the time when I’ll have to come to the studio even earlier.

It's very dangerous to mix up the words natural and habitual. We have been trained to be quite habitual at communicating in ways that are quite unnatural.

The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.

In each of us dwells a pilgrim. It is the part of us that longs to have direct contact with the sacred.

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.