All wealth is relative; and so is its absence.

All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle.

In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant, in England one has to fit.

public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.

I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand.

The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?

It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.

I had the most beautiful dream, and then I fell asleep in your arms and my dream turned lovelier still.

A jagged stone existed where her heart had been.

Here's to one of the most beautiful kind thoughtful people I have ever known . . . You are getting more like me every day.

To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.

I think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that's the true crime.

The stigma of the straight-to-DVD thing is over.

Traveling is not something you are good at. It is something you do. Like breathing.

Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.