The mind knows not what the tongue wants.

There is no perfect spaghetti sauce. There are perfect spaghetti sauces.

To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish!

There's no moral issue for me. I did the best science I could. I was struggling to survive and didn't have the luxury of being a moral creature.

Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.

It's nice not to be too boring.

I like drama as well. When I played Hamlet, I got one review that said, "This must surely be the funniest Hamlet in history," but schoolgirls would still cry when he died.

But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.

Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves.

Truthfully, I guess I would like to be remembered as a great writer and a kind person. I wouldn't mind if an expensive bag were named after me, like Jane Birkin.

Everything new troubles us. Life catches us unawares and obliges us to journey towards the unknown, even when we do not want to, even when we do not need to.

When a lot of people are calling you crazy: you're either crazy, or you're onto something.

Reason shows us our duty; he who can make us love our duty is more powerful than reason itself.