You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct?

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

Regrets are as personal as fingerprints.

Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard

Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true.

I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way they are.

Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.

It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.

You wouldn't want to be caught wearing cheap perfume would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume on your conduct?

That's what I fear: being subtracted from myself. Negation. Forced against my will to become a beast.

Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

The body can feed the body only.

People tell me to smile, I tell them the lack of emotion on my face doesn't mean I'm unhappy.

I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.

When the cat's away, chances are he's been run over.

As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

But make no mistake: the weeds will win: nature bats last.

I love romantic comedies. I know how terrible they are, but I love them! And I don't think that makes me less of a feminist.