I don't believe moviegoers don't have patience. Screenwriters are told a scene can't be longer than three minutes, that you have to cut to the chase. Not true!

All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton.

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.

Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.

The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.

I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.

Time wounds all heals.

Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please.

If you're not entertaining, what the hell's the point?

We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.

To make initial inroads into manifesting a new life, first one has to acknowledge their current life.

The days go by, through the brief silence of winter, when the sunshine is so still and pure, like iced wine, and the dead leaves gleam brown, and water sounds hoarse in the ravines.

Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.

Happiness has more to do with giving than taking. Kamon 2015

We're two fools, you know, " he said, looking into her eyes. "I don't remember the moment I fell in love with you, but I breathe it in every minute, every day.

Simple style is like white light. It is complex but its complexity is not obvious.

95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.

We know that President Obama and his accomplishments, that there's a lot of unfinished business there.

New York traffic can drive you crazy.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.