We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.

All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton.

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.

Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.

The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.

I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.

Time wounds all heals.

Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please.

If you're not entertaining, what the hell's the point?

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.

For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty. Now I am pretty lonely.

"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".

Put the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever. That's the total purpose of a monk.

[The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it.

The times we find ourselves having to wait on others may be the perfect opportunities to train ourselves to wait on the Lord.

It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.

I'm good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O'Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.

In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.

I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest thing to do in fact.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.