We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices.

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.

Crossing the ocean is secondary, planning how to pass the tides is the goal.

It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.

One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.

I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.

Don't you hate when people are late to work. And they always have the worst excuses. "Oh, I'm sorry I'm late, traffic." "Traffic, huh? How do you think I got here; helicoptered in!?"

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

Just because I'm a woman doesn't mean I'm the same as every other female singer.

A lot of times being "completely objective" means seeing the world through a patriarchal eye.

...the human spirit knows, deep down that all lives intersect.

God does not look at your outer forms, but at the love within your love.