I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.

If Sigmund Freud had watched Phil Donahue he would never have wondered what women want.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can't put things off thinking you'll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will. So I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.