I regret that I stayed in my first relationship for too long. I didn't get that it wasn't working out.

My mum still wonders when I'll get a real job. These are the questions we discuss at our family dinners.

My first real girlfriend broke up with me because she was married already.

Branne's [Pavlovic] parents wanted him to become a taxi driver, but he became a stand-up comedian instead. So they died of shame.

A society needs famous people

We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for which youth craves – the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal.

You have a lot of great hidden abilities in you, and your destiny demands that you never stop discovering them.

Never interrupt an author when he or she is ‘in the zone’, else you’ll understand the real meaning of ‘writer’s nib’.

Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries.

The highest truths a person could discover were rooted in the natural world.

I hate that word. It's return--a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen.

He that serves well needes not ask his wages.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.