It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?

I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.

No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen...You shouldn't have a baby if there's no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.

Ever since the Christmas of 1953, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection; the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving-Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home.

If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.