I was afraid to write Fear of Flying ergo I had to write it. I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it then I must do it.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

The source of all light is in the eye.

Sermons in stones and good in every thing.

If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.

You don’t know what’s going to happen in the end, and that’s what the best plays are.

If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one's own power.

I'm not the same person that I used to be.

I love it when my quotes are blown up really big!

I don't remember what made me want to be an actor. In fact, I'm always curious.

Remarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice.

Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.