The Summer Book is beautiful and warm, with the kind of wisdom we can adapt to our everyday lives.

One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.

It's better to wake up alone knowing that you're alone, than waking up with someone and still be lonely

Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman.

Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences.

Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life.

reality can be magnificent even when life is not.

The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.

Nothing ever comes to an end. Wherever one has sunk roots that emanate from one's best or truest self, one will always find a home.

The fear inside of loneliness: That only what others have is real.

Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.

The life in our possession is our time

Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window

She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her life trying to stay that age.

Ours was a history of well intentioned beginnings that end with a fight at every turn.

The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.

We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.

I project that this next election - the 2016 election - if it is about anything thematically, it is going to be about that sense of rage and displacement among white working-class voters.

My parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people.

Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.

I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them.