That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

You are so intense. Like a storm. It's shocking how intense you are.

No one expected the preacher's daughter to sin, but they sure would love to catch me at it.

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.

We must find out for ourselves that inside us is a god or goddess in embryo that wants to be born so that we can express our divinity.

He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms.

Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough.

My films are the celebration of reality, of life, of my friends, of actual daily life that passes and is gone tomorrow. We don't pay attention to it when it happens.

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder

Perhaps, in the end, there are no such things as creative people; there are only sharp observers with sensitive hearts.