If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.

I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

You are my other self

Smart means having intellectual humility rather than high cognitive ability.

I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what actors do.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

This is what I signed up for. I’m not here going ‘Oh, they’re so mean to me, and it’s so hard for me.’ What I do for a living puts me in the spotlight. They pay me for it.

No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.

Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Thinking is hard work. That's why there are so few people doing it.

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.