one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

CONCERNED BUT NOT CONSUMED!

Memory and Habit are attributes of the Time cancer. They control the most simple Proustian episode, and an understanding of their mechanism must precede any particular analysis of their application.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

He cannot think. He can scarcely breathe. But he has no desire to either, he simply wants to keep kissing her.

Into every life both tragedy and triumph can fall, and we must learn to meet both with equal serenity.

The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.

Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.

I've struggled in my life. I've had hard times, but I kept pressing on.

I need to be able to write a poem after every film and to kind of cleanse myself from the character because for about three months or so, I'm constantly living through the character's eyes.

People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.