Life is terribly awkward and uncomfortable, so we spend our time searching for those who make it all a little less unpleasant.

Everything is all right, When you’re here, When you’re right next to me, When my hand is in yours, Don’t leave me, Don’t leave me empty handed.

Being a blesséd writer is a cursed attribute, when you wish to no longer be encompassed by someone and yet you are surrounded by loose leaf papers filled with the sound of his voice.

Honesty is nothing more than a party trick, and you know how much I love to dance.

Stop wasting any more time looking outside of 'you' for what is not there. Look within and you will find the treasure you seek.

A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness

The ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend.

I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.

I hope I stand for antibigotry, anti-Semitism, antiracism. This is what drives me.

I can't control my own income, I can't control my own destiny, I can't even control my own farm if I'm a farmer. This is not going to last.

Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.

Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play.

I opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill.

Life's short, so if you're going to spend months doing something, it's gotta be pretty special... But I'm very happy to enter my Baby Jane years, and hopefully segue into the Ruth Gordon years.