Just because a marriage ended didn't mean that it hadn't been happy at times.

We were so happy.

She was busy thinking about the concept of forgiveness. It was such a lovely, generous idea when it wasn't linked to something awful that needed forgiving.

Your time keeps flying away into vanity while you dine with your distractions. Your life keeps diminishing while you waste your time feeding your distractions.

You should have long since gotten rid of military-industrial complexes.

Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

You don't know what the pattern of flour and chicken is going to be, but you know you're going to get some good fried chicken.

I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.

Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light but the effect of the lighting.

I don't even have a clue as to where to find a pregnancy test. I'm looking at all the aisles... they don't have one that says 'oops.

My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur.

Why did you destroy Manny's office, then?" "I--can't breathe--" "That is the point of choking you," I pointed out. "Haste, please, if you want to live." -Cassiel

The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.