... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them -- not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion.

[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.

the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.

By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people's eyes.

growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.

One is not allowed a grief for a life never lived. Yet one has buried the fruit of love, and a great deal of hope and many dreams.

It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.

Be a poet in action as well as in words.

After all, Betty was ill and she was her sister, and she wouldn't be able to shave her legs for weeks because of the plaster.

Love is like war easy to begin but hard to end.

I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint.

I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing.

I have a hard time visualizing anything, which is why I'm not a director, and which is why I try to work with ones I know have a strong idea in mind.

I am not beautiful, so I don't know why I'm making myself ugly. But the mustache stays.

What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.

The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism.

Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?