As for women who were pretty, intelligent, strikingly sensual, the daughters of rich families—they would only have served to disrupt my carefully ordered existence

The saying goes that for a wound caused by dog bite to heal you have to eat that same dog, and I did scoop up a mouthful for myself

The kind of woman whose goodness is oppressive

Why is such a bad thing to die?

She's a good woman, he thought. The kind of woman whose goodness is oppressive.

The heart of the home beats in the kitchen and a healthy one beats three times a day

I am done slowing down, giving people their time and space, letting them explore their options.

Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.

The individual attention and care that I personally experienced and witnessed given to other players totally blew me away.

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

If I saw a man and I was attracted… I would follow through with it.

I have tons of jokes with moments in them over the years in stand-up that don't get a laugh but I love them so they stay.

I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.

I got followed by the paparazzi because they thought I was Shannyn Sossamon.

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.