Someone will always tell you what you want to hear.

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.

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.

On the subject of spinach: divide into little piles. Rearrange again into new piles. After five of six maneuvers, sit back and say you are full.

For truth has such a face and such a mien As to be lov'd needs only to be seen.

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.

At times like this, adults need a drink

The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.

Music that touches the transcendental aspect of a human being is reserved for a marginal audience

Realize that the privilege to work is a gift. Love of work is success. Be thankful that every morning that you get up that you have some thing that must be done (whether you like it or not).

In war everybody is a prisoner.

I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours.