So it's true, then, being in love is like hitting the sweepstakes. It doesn't happen to everyone, and there's no way of saying who's going to win, but it changes your life when it does.

The only way cheese is dessert is when it's followed by the word cake.

Victory! Catherine wanted to pull the front of her top over her head and run around the office making V-signs. Of course she wouldn’t do that

The greatest possessions I leave for my children are books.

Truth is hard, propaganda is cheap.

The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.

I remember just how afraid I was. I was just as much afraid of the treatment as the diagnosis. So I thought I could talk about it in an authentic way.

I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.

I have to stay interested. I can't do the same thing over and over again, which is why I don't do - I've made sequels, but it's the movies that are not sequels that I enjoy the most.