“Another little portion of the human heritage has been quietly taken from them before they were old enough to understand.”

“finally has figured out there aren't enough quiet little British films around to protect her from the real world ”

“It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality”

“The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough.”

“We've been quiet, woman. We've taken yoru presence in this house like calm good little boys, but we're not good little boys”

“There's so much about girls I don't understand. I don't know how I'm old enough to kiss them but not old enough to talk to them.”