I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.

Anyone who ever wondered how much they could love a child who did not spring from their own loins, know this: it is the same. The feeling of love is so profound, it's incredible and surprising.

In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

You're never too fat for a new purse.

You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way.

Time can turn a scab into a beauty mark.

If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way my daughter.

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.

The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.

What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.

You see what you expect to see, Severus.

Praise a large domain cultivate a small estate.

We Germans will never produce another Goethe but we may produce another Caesar.

I loved her. I loved her with a something so fierce I couldn't even name it.

I am very active, ... I like to ride horses. I golf. I perform onstage. I am a madman onstage.

The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.

In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.

Burn my Flag and I will shoot you........but I'll shoot you with a lot of love, like a good American

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

The world around you is some kind of distraction at best, and evil at worst, and you should be turning away from it.