Never live what you see. Never follow what you know.

Knowledge is just a foundation. The whole point of a foundation is to build on it.

The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.

You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace or gallantry in commerce or politics and not much in art.

Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.

The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.

I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn't mean I won't run.

Ive always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

Personally, in real life, Im a little more down-and-dirty than I am glamorous.

The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems.