For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.

Characters should on the whole, be under rather than over articulate. What they intend to say should be more evident, more striking (because of its greater inner importance to the plot) than what they arrive at saying.

The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.

With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.