I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy.

Failure's a natural part of life.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

I survived, but it's not a happy ending.

Both the teardrop and the tempest are made of water, making it the most yielding and most destructive force on Earth.

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much tougher matter.

As a model, part of my job is to be critiqued physically.

In a place like the Guggenheim, I would like to be a representative of arte povera. This would be my ideal.

One should never mistake pattern for meaning.

Sometimes,” he said after a second that lasted a million years, “things get broken. And they can’t be fixed.

I need a Stetson, so I can ride you like a cowgirl" - Mercy to Riley

Hillary Clinton is somebody who has had a passion for families and children since she was a kid, in a Methodist youth group as a teenager in the suburbs of Chicago.