"The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out"

"Years teach us more than books"

"I sort of try to read the books when they come out impartially and not make up my mind, but the fact is when I was reading the sixth, 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince', there were bits in there where I was going, 'God, I would love to do that because it's so good'"

"Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space"

"America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children"

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language"

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"

"To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea"

"Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies"

"If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies"

"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away"