Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.

Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.

All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.

A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.

I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.

I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it -- and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.

Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.

Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much - more and more.

A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

My heart is in the Church of England but not my mind.

I am learning to be more vulnerable and open on stage. This comes with the development of my acting abilities.

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.

Some women just fight to fight. I fight to win.

We are reducing the number of relationships. We are slowly but surely consuming the massive reserves of energy that have been accumulating and are stored in the ecosystems.

Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

I had such a great upbringing in Puerto Rico, and it was just a very normal life.

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.