I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on the page, they will start to speak with sounds of their own.

It is like reading two books, one with each eye, and understanding them both.

Be the time he finds his way out of the chamber and the planetarium, he has become me.

I have already lost the knowledge of the word whose sound has the shape of a soul. But perhaps it's not too late. Come with me. Hurry now. We still have a chance to be young.

Storytelling--that's not the future. The future, I'm afraid, is flashes and impulses. It's mode up of moments and fragments, and stories won't survive.

And just as he said of me, the thing that his heart desired was not the thing that he professed to want.

Think of it. Going to sleep and waking up later in a science fiction future. It'll be fantastic. The shock and the wonder of it.

In the moment when he died at my hand he had his own heart's desire—not the actual future, but a hope for the best possible future, one that he could not himself imagine.

As an act of goodwill you must sacrifice all the futures you might have for the one that he designs for you.

I truly do not know, and that unnameable feeling that comes with not knowing: it must be worse than grief. It must.

Love, no matter how high or low its form, must be requited, or the lover suffers.

The thing that impresses me most about North America is the way parents obey their children.

People like my films. They understand me through my films; it's like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.

As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor.

Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs

You can't compare eras. But drivers of each era adapt to the needs and climate of their time. There are good and bad points to every era of the sport. I'm not really nostalgic about the past.

I mean, Jane Wyman did a lot of silly parts for years and then all of a sudden went serious and was tremendous.

Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.

If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.

I did want to mark the fact that it was the first African-American to win the Lead Actress category.I thought it was so progressive.

If you forget your roots, you've lost sight of everything