Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me, and followed me around in my dreams.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin is a place that I feel like it's undervalued. It's one of the most amazing cities I've been to. It has the most to offer.

Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.

Trash? The only trash I see here are two little boys lost at sea and a pathetic excuse for a seaworthy vessel!

The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.

We've all listened to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, haven't we? We all know how not to play a psychiatrist.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

My God is not improbable to me. He has no need of a creation story for himself or to be fine-tuned by something else.

So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it.