Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

The value we place on what we've been given correlates to our depth of gratitude for it.

My dad always said there's four phases in an actor/director's life. There's 'Mario Who?' There's 'Get me Mario!' 'Get me a young Mario, ' and 'Mario Who?'

Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.

You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'

All you are is a bag of particles acting out the laws of physics. That to me is pretty clear.

Take every opportunity that comes your way and most importantly have fun with it.

I have always believed that women are not victims, we are agents of change, we are drivers of projects.

I stand up to people.

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

In the luxury segment, if we just focused on fuel economy, that wouldn't be enough.