Surviving is one thing, " he said quietly, his voice suddenly calmer, "but you've got to have a reason to do it. There's no point in living if you don't have anything worth living for.

The clothes may vary, but the person is the same.

She knew, now, why her father had not spoken of the last war, nor Alistair of his. It was hardly fair on the living.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

I am in the present and only the present matters to me

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories

I'm not a girl anymore, I'm a woman and my heart beats like prizefighter's fists, and I have not stopped yet, I will not stop.

If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.

I really believe in clothes that are new, that are innovative - but that everybody wants to wear.

I am an entertainer. Cinema is entertainment. It is nothing more than that.

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.