Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.

There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived.

There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.

There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation - never ceases to love.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.

James is all I have. I chose James. He has to be right. Please let him be right.

I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

I definitely have a rock star lifestyle.

When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.

Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the flashiest ones?

There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

Most of the projects aren't that interesting anymore. There used to be a day when the studios made amazing films, and they were about human beings.

Oftentimes, when a woman demands accountability, respect, or consideration, she is crazy or nagging or whatever.

I'm very, very serious about my Catholicism and Hillary Clinton views that as a real asset. And we've talked about our faith lives, as she asked me to be on the ticket with her.