we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

We're only happy--truly happy--when it's forever after, but only children live in a world where things can last forever.

Believing something existed and then finding out it didn't was like reaching the top of the stairs and thinking there was one more step.

People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.

Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion.

I thought of myself as a global citizen.

Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.

Rien ne se peut comparer a' Paris. Nothing can compare to Paris.

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.

Don't ask for life to be easy. Ask for it to be worth it.

... And death unloads thee.