To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.
I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.
Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.
If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.
We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.
I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?
'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it!
Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T. S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last year.
People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience.
I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.
Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They're not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.