We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.

Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

To make films, you have to have boundless energy; you have to work and play with others really, really well, and I'm really a more contemplative kind of person. I like to sit at home and think, a lot.

You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you

Pick a better verb. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an A-bomb.

Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home.

Only peons made excusses for themselves she taught me. Never apologize, never explain.