For a novelist, no matter what, it's a complete work, even if it's not published. But if you write a screenplay, and it's not performed, then it's a sad and frustrating experience.

Whether you're an obstetrician or a third-grade teacher or a real estate agent, you know when you're doing good work. You're passionate about it.

I must have been yearning for some Jewish content beyond my genetic makeup because soon after my 21st birthday, I noticed I was no longer dating WASPs.

The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he’s not telling you, ” he said. “The most important thing he has to say is what he’s trying not to say.

I love fashion and beauty and all those things, I still do but I think that it has changed the shift, that the greed is ruling the planet right now.

Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it.

Nothing can take the place of a real hunger for souls, or make up for the lack of it.

I want the people I love to get up and speak about me, and even if you cry it'll be OK. I want you to say honest things.

The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.

The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.

No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day.

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