Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust.

Truth is always duller than fiction.

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

A relationship needs constant attention. It’s a living thing, not just a habit. You’ve got to keep on top of it.

You're just Little Miss Optimist, aren't you? Do you come with accessories, like a glass half full and lemons to make into lemonade, too?

The right to happiness is fundamental.

After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression.

Standing by and doing nothing while a sin is committed is as bad as committing the sin itself

We all grow up with anger. It's part of the human condition. But what do you do with that? It seems obvious to me that you've got to use it for something, but you have to separate it from your ego.

I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.

I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.

I want to be a superhero. Maybe I'll be a bartending superhero who shakes martinis to save the world.

I like to reminisce with people I don't know.