Because I loved myself, I was loved.

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 live our entire lives thinking we know those closest to us. But do we ever really?

Facts which were new to me were daily presenting themselves to my mind.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

When you love somebody, it's like in a couple - you want to create something. Sometimes, it's a baby.

If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

A sound man is good at salvage, at seeing nothing is lost

I wasn’t sure which of us was being more selfish—her, for wanting something that no one could promise, or me, for not promising her something that was too painfully impossible to want.

Eating is a political act.

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.