Perhaps it is better to have a place to go to that you hate than to have no place at all.

All of us are better when we're loved.

No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

Writers write about what worries them.

A Fiddle for Angus is a charming tale. This is a very fine book.

Living in a story of a limited self—to any degree—is not love.

If I have you for a day, I'll want you for a week. If I have you for a week, I'll want you for another week.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.

In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it

When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.

I like all my characters in one way or another, or at least I understand them.

I just have two daughters and a grandson. So not a big family.

Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space.

He's the Italian version of my father. I don't know if he's Italian or not.