Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still, real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.

If my father was the head of our house, my mother was its heart.

What counts that we’re not counting?

She wondered what life would be like if there was always an arm around her shoulder and if there was a back that welcomed her hug all the time.

The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.

Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.

The longer I've been a director, the less I have to 'direct.'

At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.

Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge and shining parts.

I like to think of myself as an equal opportunity offender.

I think one of the most radical things a girl can do is to own her body. And we learn so young not to own these bodies of ours.