Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

That's why literature is so fascinating. It's always up for interpretation, and could be a hundred different things to a hundred different people. It's never the same thing twice.

When you get lost in the flow of life, find yourself in the fortress of God!

Then he looked back to me, and smiled. It was a terrible expression, filled with edges, and with knives.

I'm so proud of how well Canada did at the Games here. It think we're going to do even better in 2010.

A boy comes to me with a spark of interest. I feed the spark and it becomes a flame. I feed the flame and it becomes a fire. I feed the fire and it becomes a roaring blaze.

An old friend is a new house.

I'd say the key to a good relationship is communication .

Ambition aspires to descend

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.