Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.

Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

I had a dream about you last night. Eons ago, we created a Universe, then sat back and watched miniature versions of ourselves try to make all the same mistakes we did.

Anything that had happened once on Earth should be expected millions of times elsewhere in the Universe

Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others." —Cornflower

I love working with women - I love women - and we need more women directors. We need more feminine sensibilities in movies.

In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.

A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.

By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.

When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.

If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!'

Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.