"You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?"

“Each time I think I’ve reached a limit....there is a door....it opens....and the limit is gone.”

“Cell genetics led us to investigate cell mechanics. Cell mechanics now compels us to infer the structures underlying it. In seeking the mechanism of heredity and variation we are thus discovering the molecular basis of growth and reproduction. The theory of the cell revealed the unity of living processes; the study of the cell is beginning to reveal their physical foundations.”

“Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.”

“The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex.”

“Dying is not a crime.”

“The pain of depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.”

Source : William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

“Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up very fast but not very far. That is why it is possible for fourteen-year-olds now to establish friendships with twenty-six-year-olds - because they know by the age of fourteen all they are ever going to know.”

Source : "Our Culture, What’s Left Of It". Frontpage Magazine interview, archive.frontpagemag.com. August 31, 2005.

“I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.”