A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough.

You marry who you think your beloved is, and then discover who they really are over the years. It’s that discovery that makes a marriage work.

When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories.

Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion.

We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.

I had a dog that was so lazy, he had a prerecorded bark.

I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.

Love without trust? It's not love at all.

I like pretty conservative guys, good guys. I always look for the qualities I find in my father.

The goal of socialism is communism.

The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.