One quarter of what you buy will turn out to be mistakes.

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.

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.

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

Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone.Realize that your inner sight is blindand try to see a treasure in everyone.

The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light.

Obedience is the key that opens every door.

I am always surprised by who wears my shoes. This is a good thing. There is no type of woman, but all my women like to feel feminine. They are women who are happy to be women.

This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.

married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with.

I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person Ive worked with has helped me.

I'm the only honest person in Washington.