...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail, mute and deaf and insensate as vegetables tossed upon a vast garbage pile to rot.

I've always been so interested in personal history. I'm very fascinated by my parents' and my grandparents' generations. I seem to think that they had a resilience and an integrity that may be somewhat deficient in my own generation, and in subsequent generations as well, because America has been rather easy to live in since the Depression.

I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love I love I love I love but you do not.

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.

Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.

An actress wants to be seen. An actress wants to be loved. By multitudes of people, not just one lone man.

The despairing soul is a rebel.