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“An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"- is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other. It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity. It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.”
Source : Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company
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“When I lose direction, it becomes very hard to write. I actually get a physical pain, as if my subconscious knows better. That may sound mystical and pretentious, but it's true.”
Source : Source: www.sfgate.com
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“Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.”
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“If you want to protect yourself as an actor, always work with good people”
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“We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.”
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“Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?”
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“All women on earth-- and men, too for that matter-- hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.”
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“[To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself.”
