Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.

There was a family joke that Lucy's first words were, "Nicholas is bugging me!

Live your life in a way, that there is more left after you than an Excel table.

My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.

Latency is very important when you think about autonomous cars and things like that - 5G will really change the game, and I think will be another spike of growth in the wireless industry.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

The minute I get swelled up about something, something has always brought me back down to earth.

I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.

There's not one cast member of 90210 who didn't throw a tantrum to two themselves.

I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.

To be enlightened doesn't mean you end up stupefied and unable to function.