I believe we come to earth with sealed orders. I believe that only those who lack passion look down on purpose.

I can't expect people to decide that they will change with me, so I can see why I'm on the old side.

Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights.

Books have always been living things to me. Some of my encounters with new authors have changed my life a little. When I have been perplexed, looking for something I could not define to myself, a certain book has turned up, approached me as a friend would. And between it's cover carried the questions and the answers I was looking for.

The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.

If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex.

Yeah, unfortunately [ films like Miss Julie are a dying breed]. And that is sad, because we need these. Like we need books, we need classical music, we need ballet, we need opera, to remind us really of who we are and why we are, and we need in movie houses - even to be in a movie - where you sit and see not only excitement and man-hero, woman-hero, you need quietly, just like that Hawking movie we talked about, to know how people overcome.