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

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.

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.

It's about religious acceptance, it's no longer about religious tolerance.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

I don't follow the food trends.

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.

The word "Chivalry" is derived from the French Cheval, a horse.

Probably the best explanation for my success and other Internet writers, is that we're tapping a genre or a niche out there that needs to be filled and isn't.

No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.