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

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 is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.

The reason I'm being positive is to make everyone around me to get the positive energy

For his mourners will be outcast menAnd outcasts always mourn...

Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret out the secrets of nature.

Hollywood changed to become a more marketing-driven Hollywood, where people who are running the studios are more like marketing people, and they need titles.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

You don't need to go to the ends of the earth, you don't need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it's invariably on our doorstep.

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves.

The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.

Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.

There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valor.