Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.

A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape.

People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.

I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.

What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.

I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint.

You really can't say things that upset someone in print and expect them to be nice and leave you their money. That's just not reasonable.

Elusive success is not the same as failure.

Every problem has an effect – every deserved curse has a consequence or result, an outcome or effect.

For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.

By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.

We may often do as we please - but we cannot please as we please.

... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.

I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.

I'm not one of those radical believers that everybody has to be forced to do one thing.

I know that there is a force in the world and an energy that you can put out, and when you put out love it comes back to you. I think that's my basic philosophy.

My most favorite entrance music of all time... it's that, "You're my obsession, you're my obsession" song [Animotion's "Obsession"].