There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

God, who am I?

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.

It's time to find someplace where I feel like it's home.

It's amazing how quickly human beings adapt, isn't it? It was such a great crew, and David [Lynch] was wonderful to work with [on 'The Elephant Man']. It was a very thrilling time, actually.

I am such a Pacific Northwest girl.

I have a new way of doing things, and I don’t care if you think I’m crazy.

Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.

Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.

I had to learn how to modulate my performances and interpretations of these roles in auditions for the camera.