Working with Jack [Nicholson] is sort of like standing in front of the Grand Canyon.

Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary.

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

I don’t think that because I’m not married it’s made my life any less. That old-maid myth is garbage.

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.

Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.

Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is the little lost pup with his tail tucked in.

Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away.

I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

God is a great humorist. He just has a slow audience to work with.

My road leads me seawards To the white dipping sails.

Bring on the fruitcakes, we want a fruitcake for an unlovable seat.

Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.

Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims.

I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.