I have the death sentence in seven genres.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Defiance through compliance.

Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.

The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

Love is more than love, it is the ultimate passion and power.

One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or - which is the same thing - when his goal is infinity.

What more is required than a kind of stupid, insensitive doggedness, as lover, as writer, together with a readiness to fail and fail again?

You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.

Maybe because Im a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.

Whenever anybody does something in a big way, it's always rejected at home and accepted someplace else.

There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police.

What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere, if you're not in a hurry.

I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.

I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.