"men will have to resign themselves to the fact that the old-time saloon, for men only, will never again exist. Once a woman has felt a brass rail under her instep, there can be no more needlepoint footstools for her."

“I've learned that my readings of others' work often has little connection to their intentions. This doesn't mean that my response is wrong, and it doesn't make the author's views less right. Poets, like their poems, are "hopeful monsters".”

Source : Alice Fulton (1999). “Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry”

“I do think the standards of the media have dropped to an all-time low in terms of credibility.”

“Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.”

“What happens to women happens to the entire nation. People work hard. But when you're working long hours, you don't get to spend time with your kids, you don't get a chance to take a vacation every now and then, you don't get a chance to make a big purchase (which helps the economy). There's something wrong with that. This isn't about wages, this about quality of life.”

“It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living.”

“I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.”

“An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that idea.”

“When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.”

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