Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually -- without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about.

I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.

I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.

I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.