And what if I don't want forgiveness?

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

Hope is a flower bud in the garden of the mind, waiting to bloom in the morning sun.

Happiness does not depend on a possession. Happiness depends on action and perception.

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

I don't even know how I ended up with the woman that I'm with!

I just want to sleep, and eat, and learn about what's going on in the world.

I'd say I've gone to grad school for comedy being on "Community."

It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.

I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play.

I'm someone who has always been quite clear about what I like. In the studio, I'm not a control freak but I know what I want.

I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.