Men and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid.
Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.
Timing. We give it many names: Destiny, Fate, Kismet, the will of God. Whatever we call it, lives are changed and molded by it, in small or drastic ways beyond our control. The precise, exquisite influence of timing moves people into new positions as surely as a spring flood rearranges the landscape. It is as unavoidable as life.
Isn't it boring. . . how people always want to tell you their own stories instead of listening to yours? I suppose that's why psychiatrists are better than friends; the paid listener doesn't interrupt with his own experiences.
Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.
If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover.
People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God.
You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east. Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony. So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.
I always say, I'm a woman, I can't change my sex. I can't get angry about it. I'm too busy desperately trying to get my movies made. It's hard work. There are no short cuts. If there were, I would have found them by now.
Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.
I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.