To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.

Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink.

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.

I can't actually see myself putting make-up on my face at the age of sixty, but I can see myself going on a camel train to Samarkand.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.

Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.

If we go back to the heyday of that era I think we will see replicated again the extraordinary human damage that we as a nation have suffered from.

Is that your cheap way of telling me you want to kiss

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

I can't just listen to music walking down the street unless I have a reason to. I can't just listen to music as a piece of junk in the background. It drives me insane.

Edmonton is not the end of the world but you can certainly see it from there.

Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

He wondered if she wondered if he were watching her.

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.