If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

I am an optimist, I always hope for the best.

Don't poison a river whose fish you might need tomorrow.

The real me: A woman who continues to blossom into her authentic self.

Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the bladder because solid organs are very vascular.

You're called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.

She’s not… She’s not datin’ the skeleton, is she? How would that be even possible, let alone… nice? He’s got no skin, or lips, or… or nothin’.

The foolish square calves pretend to be frightened of our train. Bluffers! Haven't they seen it every day since they were born? It's just an excuse to shake the joy out of their heels.

I will never be a career actor, I don't think. I don't feel that I have the skill set to jump into it that way, although I wouldn't mind giving it a try.

I can never understand why people who have not seen me for a while ask if I am still writing. They might as well ask me if I am still breathing.

Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.