There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

The first step is the most important. It is the most crucial and the most effective as it will initiate the direction you have chosen.

By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.

I have a horror of sentimentality, and I cannot forget that its name is Saint-Saëns.

I learned the power of storytelling and the responsibility that people with influence have to speak out

I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman it amazes me still.

Fear is just not a part of my life - so much so that if it's involved in somebody else's life and they're close to me, I won't be around them.

I was raised with a huge Armenian influence, always hearing stories of Armenia, celebrating Armenian holidays.

If you want to possess things—money; if you want to possess yourself—meditation. And if you possess yourself, money loses all meaning.

Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.

You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good.