I looked into the mirror and saw this middle-aged woman who keeps invading my face.

One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.

It's better to wake up alone knowing that you're alone, than waking up with someone and still be lonely

Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman.

Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences.

Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life.

reality can be magnificent even when life is not.

The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.

Nothing ever comes to an end. Wherever one has sunk roots that emanate from one's best or truest self, one will always find a home.

The fear inside of loneliness: That only what others have is real.

Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

The rhythm of the footsteps, the sound of whatever is coming down the ladder is driving both me and my mom steadily toward peeing our pants.

Next to motherhood, I personally believe that being an author is the best job in the world.

Don't confound static electricity with ecstatic eccentricity. One will leave your hair up, the other will live up in the air!

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were?

Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly rang false when I spoke their words in our living room.

Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.

Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.

What is terrible when you seek the truth, is that you find it. You find it, and then you are no longer free to follow the biases of your personal circle, or to accept fashionable clichés.