She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.

Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.

It is perhaps rather fine, after all, being dead. Highly underrated in the modern western world.

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.

You tried to drink the East River,"Magnus said, and Alec saw, as if for the first time, that Magnus's clothes were soaking wet too, sticking to his body like a dark second skin.

To people who make moving ads that block the view of websites: Not only will we not buy from you, but we want shrews to eat your liver.

[On Washington, D.C.:] There was no other city in the world where rumor fed upon itself so virulently. Whispers wiped out careers just as cholera destroyed its human victims.

You have to bear in mind that Mr. Autry's favorite horse was named Champion. He ain't ever had one called Runner Up.

I'm very active. I've got two small daughters and four restaurants in three cities. I'm busy.

I know who I am and what I do.

When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.

As an actress, you want to try new things. You don't want to repeat yourself. That becomes more important to you, as you get older.