Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Friends are family you choose.

To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy.

A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.

Everybody seems normal, till you get to know them.

Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount.

Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.

The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.

If not for bad luck we'd have no luck at all.

I'm very tall, so I like a guy who's bigger than me - it makes me feel feminine and safe. I don't like to be hovering over a guy or feel like a linebacker.

An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.

But there's times when I like to find the strange angles to something. People go, 'I heard a lot of jokes like that, but that's one of the most interesting takes I heard.' That's what I try to do.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.

It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me.

Human beings really think about relativity. That's part of what the brain does.

Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life.

Cautiously avoid speaking of the domestic affairs either of yourself, or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip; and theirs are nothing to you.

Understanding the diversity of our gifts enables us to begin taking the crucial step of trusting each other.

Id like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.