it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.

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.

Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.

If there comes among you a prophet saying ‘Let us return to the darkness, ’ you shall stone him, because he has sought to thrust you away from the light.

The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats, and you will get all they have.

I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated

I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.

Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone it out.

Life's face is never the same though we may look at it for all eternity.

The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it.

Lowering the Lord’s standards to the level of a society’s inappropriate behavior is apostasy.