I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.

The Truth is first rejected. Then finally accepted.

Harvey Dent: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.

Be smart, be thoughtful, be generous.

At the moment I'm doing this space movie, so I'm obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it's gone. Then I'll be able to superficially say stuff about space.

I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.

Don't come crying to me if your homes are attacked. You will reap what you sow.

But you have to have a vision of what kind of military you are trying to build in order to get the [budget] cuts to make sense.

If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.

My husband is my best friend; he knows my sensibilities.