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

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.

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.

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.

YOU are your own guru. YOU are your own soul mate. YOU are powerful. Take the reigns and drive your carriage home to love.

Is it as plainly in our living shown, By which way the wind hath blown?

Good evening, you poor little Orphans of a Loveless God. Good evening to you blood sucking fools.

Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.

On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge.

I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons.

The song, to me, is about what it is to be a human, what it is to love someone as a human being, and organizations that would undermine that, and undermine the more natural parts of being a person

Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow.

You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.

I usually just have ideas when I have them.