You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.

I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.

I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That's universal in women's friendships.

I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate.