Perhaps my problem in marriage - and it is the problem of many women - was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.

Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

Writers are nothing more than borderline schizophrenics who are able to control the voices.

One cannot have any respect or regard for men who take the position of the reformer and then refuse to see the logical consequences of that position, let alone following them out in action.

A respectful woman is a righteous woman.

Look in the mirror and see the President in you.

I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

I'd love to try my hand at something else.

The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.

Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive.

I have this whole thing that when God gives you more that you have imagined, you should give it back.

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.