Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Art must take reality by surprise.

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

I always believe things are going to work out.

We all have some taste or other of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an acquired one.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Horrible things can happen to you, and horrible things happened to us on September 11. But if we look for love and happiness and fulfillment, we will find it.

Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if I feel a director hasn't noticed.

I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it.

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

We don't think that we're begging for anything. We think we're demanding what is ours by right.

A guy at ABC told me to change my name and get a nose job. I said 'You get a nose job.'

Be conscious of one another and everything that we are connected to in this world of ours (not just your relatives and friends).