The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.

Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.

I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive...it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account.

He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn't love me anymore, and it's not the end of the world.

Everyone has sorrow. Everyone has obligations. Everyone keeps going. You lean on the people who love you. You do the best you can, and you keep going.

People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world...But you have to do what's right for you.

My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.

Head's all empty, I don't care,' he'd sing to me, quoting the Grateful Dead, and I'd force a smile, thinking that my head was never empty and that if it ever was, you could be darn sure I'd care.

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.

You are the chief bucket filler, and the best way to fill buckets is with excellent communication.

We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.

A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.

He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.

I have had all I can stand of not taking myself seriously.

I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.

Is the economy something organic or is it something engineered? I think it's closer to the organic. You harm it by artificially suppressing volatility in it.

Women expect us to like them, but they don't even like each other

In every real actor, there is a need to feel for a few hours like the center of the world. Egocentrismo, we say in Italian.