Why is there always this twitchiness, when you introduce a man to a woman friend, about whether the man will be bored or put off?

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

The minute you think you've got it made disaster is just around the corner.

Try to bring me down, but you will never succeed because I'm always moving upward. Maybe not before, but now ... I am.

I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career.

As long as we relate with our underlying primordial intelligence and as long as we push ourselves a little, by jumping into the middle of situations, then intelligence arises automatically.

My favorite place in the world is my dad's house in Montauk.

Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.

Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever.

we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud

Joy acts like a trampoline, everything that touches it bouncing right back off it.

Fruits and vegetables for some kids are scary and not fun.