Charity always feels better to the donor than to the recipient.

Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.

When in doubt, do the obvious.

Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood.

It's not unusual for kids in their twenties to be mad at their parents.

The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.

Getting enough of what you want without depriving anyone else is the ultimate act of selfishness and sanity.

She's an idiot. She's looking at life through a selfish, lusty haze.

Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events.

You're much more interesting when you're online - all of us are.

You don't need a reason to divorce someone you can't stand.

I am the collector of the past.

We don’t live in a free market society… markets are controlled by the major players who influence legislation to perpetuate their control...

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.

I'd been working on the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries material] for years, first, in the Independent newspaper columns and then in the various versions of the movie scripts.

Darkwing Duck and Don Karnage are the most fun to do, because they're both probably the closest to me - I kinda improvise a lot of them, kinda ad lib.

It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build.

Really great people rarely leave a healthy organization.

I have a lot of friends who come and stay, and we talk about the world.