It has been said that he who was the first to abuse his fellow-man instead of knocking out his brains without a word, laid thereby the basis of civilisation.

It takes 50 years to get a wrong idea out of medicine, and 100 years a right one into medicine.

Science is learning to control everything but man.

And I'd started thinking about my mother's last weeks--the way she'd drifted listlessly about the house in her dressing gown, cigarettes in one hand, glass of something strong-smelling in the other.

Every time I think I'm about to seize the moment, it drifts back into the shadows, just beyond my reach.

I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.

Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.

I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are.

All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.

Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

Everybody's motivation comes from the core of who they are.

Thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely.