New York's the lonesomest place in the world if you don't know anybody.

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn't, they couldn't endure.

What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?

Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.

The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.

Authors do not supply imaginations.

I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.

that's what everybody wants, just a little more money, even the people who have it.

I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.

Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, though I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.

You CAN have it all. Sometimes it just takes a little time to figure out your strategy to get there.

The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport.

Imagination rules the world.

As an actor, one is so appreciative when one is working. I think I am lucky that I have the opportunity to work having that total dependence on an external validation.

Coaches can teach you two things: confidence and technique.

I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defence when and wherever needed.

It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.

In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.

You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning.