"When a couple turns domestic, for the first while having to talk about the need for aluminum eaves troughing and other matters only gets in the way of the relationship. Then, magically, these negotiations take the place of the relationship."

“But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his.”

“God has given us the fascination and mystery of irrational numbers, as one aspect of a rich world”

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”

“We were the daughters of the post-World War II American dream, the daughters of those idealized fifties sitcom families in which father knew best and mother knew her place and a kind of disappointment, and tense, unspoken sexuality rattled around like ice cubes in their nightly cocktails.”

Source : Anne Taylor Fleming (1995). “Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey”, Fawcett

“The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.”

“Hangovers are a vivid form of vengeance. Last night my apartment became the venue for a small, introverted chardonnay festival. A melancholy choir of Bulgarians provided the entertainment, via a set of headphones that ended up irredeemably tangled beneath the bed. Part of me just watched. The other part was in charge.”

Source : Liz Jensen (2009). “The Rapture”, p.101, A&C Black

“My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude...”