“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

“Many myths and fairy tales tell of a prince, who has been turned into an animal or a monster by sorcery, being saved by a woman. This is a symbolic representation of the development of the animus toward consciousness. Often the heroine may ask no questions of her mysterious lover, or she is only allowed to meet him in darkness. She is to save him through her blind faith and love, but this never works. She always breaks her promise and is only able to find her beloved again after a long quest.”

“I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman simply can't fall in love so deeply.”

“Unlike storybook heroes and heroines but like many actual heroes and heroines, she was something of a social outcast.”

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”

“Every man would like to possess all the women in the world, but a woman only wants the man she loves and to whom she is faithful.”

“I look inside myself and ask, do I feel like a man, or a woman, and the answer is that I feel like shit.”

“A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.”

“Kids are like heroin, a little heroin addiction. When it’s bad, you’ve never been so miserable, but when it’s good you’ve never been so high.”

“Virility of one kind or another is so important if you are to feel like a man. You have to be able to perform stunts. You have to be able to show off in front of your woman, do things she urges you not to do because they look dangerous.”