I plan to be a sinner tonight. Could've been something else, but looked way too good in my red dress to be anything Christian.

The moment you feel you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment to absolutely and utterly walk away.

Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences.

The only competition in art is the search for truth. No matter who gets there first, we all win.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.

Jim Leighton is looking a sharp as a tank

With fiction, it could be about anything. It just has to be good writing, like Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," which I read recently. I want to forget I have a book in my hand.

The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.

If I'm exhausted, physically and particularly emotionally, I can't tell what's good and I can't tell what's bad and I'm useless.

If you have someone on the set for the hair, why would you not have someone for the words?

The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree.