She fantasized sometimes too about killing him a little: a little poison in his pudding, a little flick-flick-flick with a fillet knife at his throat.

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.

I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house, all those things no widow will tell you ever crossed her mind.

All I cared about that summer were suntans, beaches, boys and booze.

Don’t worry if you fall, sweet girl. Youth is made for bruises.

Her mother always told her, “If he hits you, then you leave, ” but Jack had never hit her, not with his fists.

It wasn’t as if she’d thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn’t always what they needed, and what a person needed might be the last thing they could ever want.

Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer

Life demands death. Life demands death to ego – A state when we only think and care about ourselves.

I enjoy doing all different types of movies even though I am the most comfortable with comedy.

Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else's business.

Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all around us.

And there was Frodo, pale and worn, and yet himself again; and in his eyes there was peace now, neither strain of will, nor madness, nor any fear. His burden was taken away.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.