I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

Money is like a river. It flows where the conditions are conducive to its flow.

She could never understand why creatures of darkness had the slightest interest in spineless human girls.

No man ever became very wicked all at once.

If you're sensitive, you will have a hard time with me.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

I have suffered for this book; now it's your turn.

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

I can do small things in a great way.

Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.

I don't engage in hypotheticals.