In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

I have one rule I live by: Only do what you can do. That neans you're never looking outside for what's popular; you're always looking inside for what's true.

New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, that’s who I am.

Someone will always tell you what you want to hear.

in the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.

There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.

Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.

writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.

One cannot overstate the potential for hysteria on a movie set. Everyone always acts as if making the movie is as important as eradicating malaria.

As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s.

On the subject of spinach: divide into little piles. Rearrange again into new piles. After five of six maneuvers, sit back and say you are full.

Your value depends on what you make of yourself. Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.

Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket.

Er, I say, are you going to be able to get me out?

I understand - and often make fun of - the desire to run to the wall text before running to the painting.

The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.

I want to play tennis and fornicate.

Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.

Everybody has a secret and everybody has problems.