I don't want to die leaving the world as it is right now.

That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

Better immersion than to live untouched.

It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

Not to have an audience is a kind of death.

It's hard for me to talk about the terrible things that have happened in my lifetime because they didn't need to be.

Sometimes I feel that I'm not just aging . . . I'm decomposing.

I'd have thought my particular brand of quirkiness, combined with sharp intelligence and a fine voice, would have yielded more. But it hasn't. Yet!

God is action - let us be like God.

Well, what did I expect? S&M didn't stand for soft and mushy?

Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.

Once I find the right maxim to apply, I feel that I have done all that can be expected of me.

A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels.

Love cannot be taught, it can only be caught.

I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some truth in there.