There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.

I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

One of the attributes of love . . . is to bring harmony and order out of chaos.

The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.

There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.

...(Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has cooked you a few bad meals you must never eat again.