Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.

All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton.

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.

The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.

I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.

Time wounds all heals.

Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please.

If you're not entertaining, what the hell's the point?

We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.

Cordelia: I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan.Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus.Cordelia: I stand corrected.Oz: Just keeping things in perspective.

We don't need to start our dream from the top all we need is to make a first step where we are standing right now and say my journey starts now

Every day i throw my leg over this steed, I know this ride could be the last for me, it's in my blood this need to be free, some what different than your average breed.

It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy.

The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do; our ability to do it; and the difficulty in replacing us.

Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.)

It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires.

Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.

Maybe the package comes in a different shape than we originally thought it would.

Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.