The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keep us going.

"Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery."

The propaganda arm of the American Dream machine -- Hollywood.

"Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body, the possibility that the magnet that attaches us to a context in the world can lose Its grip."

There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.