If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

A finished person is a boring person.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

The Trust movie it has shown how one picture could be twisted and even how the cops are dirty!

They said the doctors could tell from the scars.""Stop.""Scars can tell you how old the wound is.""Stop.""When I stopped going to school, they came and found me. They found me in the closet.""Sarah.

We're all ants. I'm a glittery little ant.

Only when we are so old, only, are we aware of the beauty of life.

Step with care and great tact. And remember life's a great balancing act.

If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter.

Eventually everything fails me, but when I look at the sunset or the sky, I'm reminded what it's like to be alive.

In the name of God, impure souls of the living dead shall be banished into eternal damnation. Amen.

I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera.

Faithfulness in little things is a big thing.