A lesson in folly is worth two in wisdom.

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?

THOMASINA:But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!

Every single human being is creative. Dreams are a proof.

I'm a big fan of old boots.

I left acting for 15 years, and I think it's really nice to have another life. I took too much for granted when I was younger.

I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living.

But it was another girl, young and new to the city, fiddling with her keys.

She said, "'Ye can we get married at the mall?" I said, "Look, you need to crawl 'fore you ball Come and meet me in the bathroom stall And show me why you deserve to have it all."

When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

I play video games a lot... I love to read... I enjoy spending time with my husband and daughter, who are my most favorite people in the world.

The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible.

Yet when the books have been read, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them