The hangover: such a cure, she thinks, for overthinking.

But writers and their woes: they couldn't be parted. Not for anything.

Children, Hadley thinks to herself, children are more civilised than this gang on the sauce.

She kissed him but he didn't seem to recognize it.

Talents too many, not enough of any.

The longer I don't write, the more I hurt.

I want to be a good man, a good writer.""Be one or the other, Ernest, not both.

No man should be asked to live with so much sadness, and with so little promise of relief.

Ernest chose to go, she finally thinks, watching the fire turn the papers black. He loved her but he could not live anymore.

Martha thanks Sylvia, gesturing with the book. "Just remember not to try to hard with understanding it, " Sylvia says. "Like people, they're best not to be too thoroughly understood.

Paris without a good book is like a pretty girl with only one eye.

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

The employment equation used to be built on a foundation of two-way loyalty. The world has changed. Today, successful employment relationships can only be sustained on a foundation of two-way honesty

The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community chipped in.

When I was a kid and my mom made tomato soup, she would cut buttered toast into squares and float them on top of each bowl.

I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.

I think my ex-girlfriend has weekly lessons with the devil on how to be more evil. I don't know what she charges him.

Tel Aviv is a dynamic international city with a lot of smart people, great fashion and food. I've met a lot of amazing people and there's this great energy everywhere.

There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.

I like to be lean and flexible. I'm not interested in gaining size.

We are not perfect. None of us is. I apologize for that flaw. I thank the governor for giving me a job with a driver.