I drove a cab. But all the girls I knew when I was young who had to work - there were rich girls - but the ones who had to work were waitresses. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant.

Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner.

It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that our experience does not more closely resemble a macramé plant holder than it does a painting by Seurat. When it comes to art, life is the biggest copycat in the matter of the frame.

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

I'm a horrible girlfriend. I always was. I'm great at the beginning, because I can be very romantic.

Take away a man's actual sense of manhood - which is conventionally based on the ability to work, to earn money, to be self-sufficient, to provide for children - and you've got to give them something else. And they did.

Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you.