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

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

...(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.

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

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

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

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