Let me get you all some punch, ” I said.“You're leaving us?” said Isabel, sounding panicky.“I'll be right back, ” I promised. “If anyone comes near you, just scream and run.

Applaud my friends, the comedy is over...[on his death bed]

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it.

Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.

Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.

I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

Humility is the worst form of conceit.

I don't mind playing older characters. I find it interesting. There are parts I couldn't have got when I was 30 years old. So, it continues to interest me in the same way that it always did.

The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.

Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.