If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills - than my bowl without a doubt stands upon this memory.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

The object of war is to survive it.

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

I guess I probably see myself as a director. If I had to choose, I think that that's the aspect of the process that I'm most excited by.

I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.

The little boy in me always wanted to be a treasure hunter.

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

I brought my lips down to hers, and it was like everything that had ever happened to me had simply been a warm-up for this moment, that this was where my life truly began.

Stop looking out, start looking in. Be your own best friend. Stand up and say, hey, this is mine!

Having whipped single women into high marital panic-or "nuptialitis," as one columnist called it- the press hastened to soothe fretted brows with conjugal tonic.