One cannot overstate the potential for hysteria on a movie set. Everyone always acts as if making the movie is as important as eradicating malaria.

I have one rule I live by: Only do what you can do. That neans you're never looking outside for what's popular; you're always looking inside for what's true.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, that’s who I am.

Someone will always tell you what you want to hear.

in the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.

There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.

Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.

writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.

As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s.

On the subject of spinach: divide into little piles. Rearrange again into new piles. After five of six maneuvers, sit back and say you are full.

My breath is normal, when you're not around, but when I hold you closely, it's never to be found.

A man's life is all he has. When you're old, it's all you'll ever have.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects to me.

I'm not saying - in any way - that Donald Driver is lying or lacking sincerity. But I trust my reporting.

All my life, I've dreamed in gold.

Religion is a powerful weapon that can be used because it persuades people to do things. And thus it can be used for good or ill. But it should not be a powerful weapon at all.

There, there, baby. We'll hide her body in the trunk later. (Tory)

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.