I recognize limitations in the sense that I've read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Shakespeare . . . Aside from that I don't think of limiting myself.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Art must take reality by surprise.

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

I always believe things are going to work out.

Don't put off happiness you can have today. Tomorrow is a hope, not a promise

The red washingdown the bathtubcan't change the color of the seaat all.

And at the start of every new day, I still believed I could choose my own beginning, one that was scrubbed clean of everything past

It isn't all over

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

When I'm in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat.

I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more and I can take more unpopular decisions. I can have as my guidance for decision whatever is right, not whatever is popular.

I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.

With each draft, the work gets better, and usually that means tighter. It means getting the precise word, not the approximate word.