Florida Scott-Maxwell

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.

No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

Today, barely 5 percent of all containers coming into the United States through our ports are scanned.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.