Marianne Dashwood looks at gray skies and sees blue. That's all very well, and it's not something you ever want entirely to lose. But you must lose a little of it; otherwise you're going to get wet.

Let's stop feeling so guilty about global warming

A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

[Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots movement of all time. This is the battle of our lives. We're fighting for our children.

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.

I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.

Why do we wear them? They're so painful.