Getting a divorce is always horrible because you feel you've failed. Everyone hates to give up on a marriage. You think your family's broken up.

The real fountain of youth is to have a dirty mind.

I'm a bit of a groupie.

Why would anybody lie? The truth is always more colourful.

I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me.

There is nothing more humiliating than loving someone so much that you forgive the infidelities.

Since I got a divorce, I have been dating younger guys. But it's just because they're the ones that ask me out.

The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.

We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

I think if I weren't so beautiful, maybe, I'd have more character

A leader does not develop leadership by gaining more followers. Great leaders make more leaders.

We got a fightin' side a mile wide, but we pray for peace 'cause it's mostly us that end up servin' overseas.

Ask not for a lighter load but for broader shoulders

Our students sometimes use their creativity to do wrong things, and we therefore conclude that we must keep them from being creative. But evil cannot be blamed on creativity. (p31)

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.

I want my daughter to see a strong woman who goes after what she wants.

I regretted the time I wasted on things that did not matter with people that [do] matter.

I smell of sweat. I don't like people smelling of all these weird things. I think deodorant is disgusting.

It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me.

If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money.