I've been dealing with the press for 45 years. You need a very long spoon to sup with them. While you are always grateful, they are like badly trained dogs. They smile and wag and bite your arm off.

I think handbags, not so much clothes anymore, but I think you can tell a fashion victim by their handbag.

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

I don't feel like I am 66 at all. I feel more like I am 35. But I have a bus pass so it must be true.

To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.

I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.

Sure, good things can go badly wrong. Nevertheless, there's always another day.

I've been given this blessing, which is my granddaughter. You're no longer just you. You suddenly fit into the chest of drawers of life.

I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.

You must swear never to go on the dole. Never be bored. Find something to do. And don't yawn.

I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it.

Only loyal love knows the sacred path to a faithful heart

The problem with at-home IQ tests is that too many people wouldn't understand the results. Calling customer service is a bad sign.

With acting, you gotta wait until someone gives you a role in a play or movie. With writing, you're not dependent on others, you don't have to wait. You can sit down and just create.

Will you come with me?""Ah, Kestrel, that's something you never need to ask.

Every race proves a new opportunity to educate myself about what it means to be a runner and what it means to run.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

I had to do what I had to do to keep my family alive. Period.

A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.