It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

Some people just want to be part of the story, even if it’s a story that’s completely fabricated.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

We're all born into this river without knowing how to swim, And eventually we learn how to keep this water under our chins

Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China.

Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men.

Studies show American students are becoming less proficient in math. Experts say we should have seen this coming, but nobody could put 2 and 2 together.

Sparks fly, it's like electricity.

I've been in the entertainment industry since I was five and it has always been something that has been in my blood.