The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.

The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.

There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.

For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.

Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends.

One of the attributes of love . . . is to bring harmony and order out of chaos.

...(Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has cooked you a few bad meals you must never eat again.

Every impression ever made on a person from newborn babyhood onwards will contribute to the shape and texture of the imagination.

The Lord chose to give me back my life, not because I deserved it, but because he had work for me to do.

You can't flirt with me during a lockdown. My eyes narrow. It's unethical.

Delayed gratification is a major virtue that is missing from our society.

Want to raise children who will be happy adults? Teach them not to whine.

If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure where the edges of one such being ended and another person began.

His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.

Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.

Revolution is the larva of civilization.

Cheerily to sea; the signs of war advance: No king of England, if not king of France