Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

As Maria Mitchell pointed out in 1875, 'Science needs women'.

Where there is love, there are no faults. Where the love of give-and-take (dealer) arose, all faults will be seen there.

It takes a minute to love but eternity to forget.

It seems that we had...not a better education, per se, but perhaps more incentive to use it. They learn, but they hardly think.

A convergence exists in the search for human excellence on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.

We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.

When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.

Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles on our cakes.