That's what we're all sort of trying to do in our lives - to make the simplest things work out the best.

A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win.

I'm a pleaser. That's my character.

Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?

Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it.

I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to.

Modern marriage is first and foremost a romantic and private union, but the tax laws and inheritance laws and religious implications that still surround this institution indicate that marriage has evolved without casting away its earlier purposes or assumptions. It's like we just keep building on this thing, piling new advancements on the old model.