There's no privacy for the violently dead.

No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.

Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time.

Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit.

pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future.

Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.

Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.

Each husband gets the infidelity he deserves.

A country inn is a percolator. News seeps, simmers, and bubbles.

There is a personal sacrifice required to realize God’s passion

Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they’re feeling righteous.

No matter where I go or how I change, I'll always be your Anne. Anne of Green Gables.

If I can stay constantly busy, I'll be happy.

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

It was phenomenal to see what was going on there. I came away from there so energized about India, and I was pretty sure that [Narenda] Modi was going to win an election that wasn't easy to see.

I've worked with Robert Altman a couple of times too.

Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles.

People have to go through things in order to become the person they are today, and that's that.

I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.