You know those vampire myths? Bollocks to them.

Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes.

Cuz I can count on one hand the men who’ve loved me, not in the Biblical sense—I don’t have enough digits for that—but who have truly loved me.

I kiss [her] even though I know that if you kiss a girl before you are married to her you might get AIDS.

Mad bad and dangerous to know.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

I try to master every facet of a character in order to build a safety net for myself, so I can go on to take more risks to create someone really distinct.

George Burns has been on my show twenty or thirty times, or maybe more. How can you turn down a guy that age?

It is ironic that Samuel Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Al Gore was attending his now famous fund-raiser with Buddhist nuns in Southern California.

The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.