If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

If I do not personify God, you call me an atheist. But I do not personify God because I refuse to limit God to the boundaries of my imagination... or yours.

I love visual stylists like Bob Fosse and Vincente Minnelli and Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger with The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffman.

I think everybody should like everybody.

as the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.

The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world.

I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.

When you do a reality show and host shows, it's hard to have secrets.

Who can put a pricetag on the influence of a mother?

You can make history, or you will be vilified by it.