What you become is what counts.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Do not join encounter groups. If you enjoy being made to feel inadequate, call your mother.

Good gossip is just what's going on. Bad gossip is stuff that is salacious, mean, and bitchy; the kind most people really enjoy.

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's.

No matter who you are or what you plan to do in life, learn to type!

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

What you become is what counts.

Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.

Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.

You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

The truth is a snare you cannot have it without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it but only in such a way that it catches you.

I would love to be a guys' girl, but they always end up falling in love with me, so I'm a girls' girl instead. I've tried having friendly relationships with men, but it ends up being impossible, and I've been around the block too many times not to see it coming.

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Proof of war, when it comes, always comes too late.

People's personalities get tweaked at weddings.

The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

I've never been a big gore guy.

As sustainability becomes more and more of a concern, we're going to see more plastics.

I've always been fascinated by Picasso and how he would look at a single image through multiple perspectives and from separate moments in time. He would look at a woman's face and he would see almost a three-dimensional look even though it was a flat canvas. I thought, well why couldn't we do the same thing with a football play?

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.

I am a mother and I have been divorced, and I love fashion and the Upper East Side.

There is no such thing as the worst gang because they're all pretty bad. It is very difficult to classify them in terms of who is worse than the other because they all have pretty bad things associated with them.

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. The library is the university.

Nothingness haunts Being.

I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop. Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job.

I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.

A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.

My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.

Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives.

Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.

We have a lot of property and we take care of it mostly ourselves, so that's what I spend a lot of time doing, which I love because I'm outside.