One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.

Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.

It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom which is a proper human goal is the freedom from fantasy, that is the realism of compassion. What I have called fantasy, the proliferation of blinding self-centered aims and images, is itself a powerful system of energy, and most of what is often called 'will' or 'willing' belongs to this system. What counteracts the system is attention to reality inspired by, consisting of, love.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.