For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.

I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.

Delegation of kindness is an epidemic of success

The joy we feel to be together seems worthy of a fairy tale, from the moment our eyes met we felt the crush of love. This is not a passing infatuation, ours is love of truth.

In many homes, technology meant to illuminate the mind ends up only illuminating the living room.

I get sent a lot of scripts where you're just the mom.

If you're nice to me I'll never write anything bad about you.

Your highest female grace is silence.

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.

A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.