The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open to all, and to be free in a speech that never concludes.

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

I love the paradise of being between the pages of a book.

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

Men can go to hell! I’ll meet them there.

My wife and I use a lot of garlic and rosemary with roast lamb. It has to be New Zealand lamb. The domestic variety is too gamy, in my experience.

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

I would like to say that it is not important what you have, but how you enjoy it.

For me, writing started as pleasure that became professionalized, so my relationship to it is a bit sullied. I'm working it out.

The mystery of the Cross, a mystery of love, can only be understood in prayer. Pray and weep, kneeling before the Cross.

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

Resurrection is a belief and hope in restoring this world.