Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

I have to return some videotapes

The better you look, the more you see.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

No one ever likes the right person.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes."Do they ever make more sense?"No.

Some say God caught them even before they fell.

Getting there isn't half the fun, it's all the fun.

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

I would never sell my dog for a man. I'd sell the man.

It's very important for a brand to have an identity through the years, but it's very important as well to evolve because times change so fast.

Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.

Ask me a question about paparazzi, and I get so heated. And I feel so bad for young kids of celebrities. My nieces and nephews get yelled at, and I'm like, 'You are yelling at a 2-year-old.'

I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.

Forgive: if you never know forgiveness, You'll never know the blessings that God gives.