I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.

A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.

And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert.

You have to listen to what resonates within your own gut. You find your direction there. Your voice comes out.

You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself.

If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at.

You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt.

Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst.

I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.

A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.

Most beautiful places where I found myself satisfied were libraries

The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.

Every time you win you're reborn when you lose you die a little.

All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River

In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.

Animals are always goddesses and gods, like the god Anubis. He's the one who's accompanying the souls to the next life, and he's the one who decides if they will be able to cross or not.

You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?

What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.

No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.