If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy.

No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.

No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time.

A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.

She would lift her peignoir above her knees and say to her husband: 'Give baby a kiss...'

No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.

There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment.

The only way to be happy is to prepare your mind to be happy.

I have not stopped water when it should run. I have not made a cutting in a canal of running water.

I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.

Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.

I'm not a spy for Russia or China or any other country for that matter.

I can't die but once.

It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight.

The hardest thing [for me] is to 'just' agree, and that is what sparks creativity, the feeling that something can be better, the feeling that something's missing, the feeling that something's needed.

Every notion is born along with its form. I make reality of ideas as they come into my head

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.