Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.

I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.

Everybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it.

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.

The only thing I learned from the architecture is keep the bathroom and the kitchen near each other, so you don't have to run pipes all over the place.

My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.

Writing is flat, so if you only have part of one eye working, you still can do the job. It's just that you sit there and you're angry, which doesn't help.