The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

It's sad when people break up.

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?

The greatest treasures of your life are associated with the people you love and who love you in return.

Do what the client wants, not what you want.

If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough.

I am better now. Word of honour: I am better now.

People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when you lie.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

A lot of times, movies that are in the top 10 lists or maybe even win Baftas or Oscars, you then watch them a year later and you go, 'Maybe it wasn't so great.'