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“... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.”
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“All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.”
Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. November 21, 2007. 
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“After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip into a sort of suspended life that would be forever gray and meaningless if you did not somehow come back to me. I put back the pieces of my heart and kept on living. I am not the woman I was when I was in love with you and expecting to marry you. I am not the woman I was when I heard that you were married. I am the woman I have become in the five years since then, and she is a totally different person. I like her. I wish to continue living her life.”
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“Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.”
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“But coming home that day, walking downhill with a panorama of valley and hills before me, I turned my gaze inward, and what I saw, stopped me in my tracks. Instead of the usual unlocalized centre of myself, there was nothing there, it was empty, and at the moment of seeing this there was a flood of quiet joy and I knew, finally I knew what was missing-it was my "self".”
Source : Bernadette Roberts (1993). “The Experience of No-Self: A Contemplative Journey”, p.23, SUNY Press
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“What about regular professionals, who just want to do what they do as well as they can?”
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“But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.”
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“You do not need to seek freedom in a different land, for it exists with your own body, heart, mind, and soul.”
Source : "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom".
