Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.

It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head.

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love.

Most damning of phrases: He meant well.

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe.

That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

Every teardrop that falls from your chin, God will catch in the palms of His hands!

You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience.

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

So my methodological approach is to draw on many different features in highlighting different facets of the novella (and the opera and the film).

I can't walk down the street with my head up. I'm not a hat wearer, but now I'm a hat wearer.

Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.

Your world is one of cause and effect.

It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.

The mind is the source of all experience, and by changing the direction of the mind, we can change the quality of everything we experience.