But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.

She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink.

407Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.

I used to say when I was working in the theater that if I ever had five seasons of a hit TV show I'd never have to worry about money and wouldn't have to do anything I didn't want to do.

With fiction, it could be about anything. It just has to be good writing, like Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," which I read recently. I want to forget I have a book in my hand.

I think the Russians might do away with the terror in twenty or thirty or years, when they are richer, and when they don't need these repressive methods so much.

Conservative's the last thing I am.

Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.

Don't use barbiturates before going on stage. And be honest.

The optimum committee has no members.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

I think that notion of being a seeker, somebody who never felt totally fulfilled, but was always passionate about the search, that comes from the background, probably.