Writing to you like this is the same as saying your name when I've woken up late, feeling sick, tasting rot. It's pointless, but it happens.

Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship.

I don't know what I'm playing at. I feel so romantic and furious all the time.

It's true about the running water. You can hear anything you want to in it.

He lies down next to me.He says, 'You know - you have a face to die for/''Well, don't die, ' I say, "we just met.

It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it

She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut.

I said 'I was imagining you as a little boy, and as a teenager, and as an old man.'He said: 'I was looking at you and thinking how young you look, and how old at the same time.

I think they're being cheap with their lives, that's why. So they seem ravenous for the worst thoughts I can have.

It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.

A day alone, only that would be death.

Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.

Distance is the Enemy of Awareness.

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

Memory doesn't erase. The recall ability fails.

The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable of more work with the same expenditure of fuel.

Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.

As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.

I know that my audience is largely women, so what I try to do a lot of times is address their issues.