"Nature and animals, especially living with them for as long as I have - gives you the gift of yourself, gives you the opportunity to discover and experience your own individual nature within yourself."

“By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.”

“Frankly, you're always up and down. You're successful and then you're not.”

Source : "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

“After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.”

“No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.”

“From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?”

“Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world”

Source : Attributed to Matthew Arnold's "Literature and Dogma". "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", pp. 216-218, 1922.

“No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.”

“I can't get married. I can't fake sleep for 30 years.”