[T]ea, that uniquely English meal, that unnecessary collation at which no stimulants--neither alcohol nor meat--are served, that comforting repast of which to partake is as good as second childhood.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

Imagination can create crazy things in a place you don't know.

I want the best product for my audience, and if I don't care 100%, who will? It's my name, my likeness that goes out there.

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

I've done TV for tons and tons of years, so I'm not crazy about doing more TV, but with films, all I want to do are different projects that aren't all the same.

Combinatorialists and analysts always have different names for everything, in order to keep themselves from interacting.

I like to see and understand a space, to hear everyone's point of view in order to respond to many different needs.

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

For tolls too briefly the sounds of mercy... In fear we ponder the use of thunder for peace

Scholes was England's best football player. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass.

I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.