...(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.

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.

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

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.

Father always said that money doesn’t grow on trees. Well, time doesn’t grow on trees either.

More than loud acclaim, I loveBooks, silence, thought, my alcove.Pangur BánPoem by Anon Irish Monk, Translated by Seamus Heaney

P.S. Please give my love to Tink, she always was such a funny little bug

The wounded are instruments, singing pain.

Cartels have spread and will spread as long as the world lacks an effective mechanism by which balanced expansion may be achieved without a resulting disruption of prices.

You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.

My Guardian is the Planet of Silence. Soldier Of Death and Rebirth Sailor Saturn! - Hotaru as Sailor Saturn

I live on a canyon at the edge of San Mateo. We are fortunate to have lots of suburban wildlife as our neighbors, though I kind of wish the rattlesnakes would stop curling up by our back door.

I like that Helen Mirren has been saying the next doctor should be a woman. I would like to go on record and say that the Queen should be played by a man!

Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?