One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: You are.

Washington is a city of locker-room boys, and all the old, outmoded notions apply: men and women are ushered to separate rooms after dinner, sex is dirty, and they are still serving onion-soup dip.

Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void. - You've Got Mail

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

It's so interesting that we think we know the rules to this game, this total hypothetical game called, "Would you," "If you had it to do over." It's not out there.

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.