After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office.
Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.
Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.
The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.
I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.
There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera.
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.
When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.