All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.

I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.

Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.

Basically, I am a good, gentle person, but I am attracted to mean personalities.

After all, a girl is... well, a girl. It's nice to be told you're successful at it.

We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.

Old age - that's when a woman takes vitamins A through G, and still looks like H.

What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed.

I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I'd be happy. It's so empty. It's never what I wanted, ever. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants - to be loved.

I can't take his genius any more.

Whatever you write about me, don't make it sad.

Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.

When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry, ' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.

A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, headmired in others, but he could not acquire it himself.

There is no brutality and cruelty in battles and wars

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

The truth is that everybody has a past and everybody has an ex.

Walk in nature. Take the time to be still. Practicing arts, arranging flowers, doing some drawing, working on a computer, brings a sense of stillness into your life.

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

I love being able to stay real to the world.

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.