As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?

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.

I'm an aspiring writer.' I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not.

It's sad to see just how many people are lonely together.

I know it's practical for career women, but sneakers with suits? Jesus couldn't possibly weep harder than I did.

I would be lying if I said it wasn't cool to see myself on the cover of 'Vanity Fair, ' right? It's, like, what am I doing there? This is bizarre.

There's something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh.

I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

You can’t have what you want to have, without doing what you need to do.

I can't imagine being invested in someone else's script.

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.