I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart.

I could never be a woman, 'cause I'd just stay home and play with my breasts all day.

You know, you're really nobody in L.A. unless you live in a house with a really big door.

The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.

I'm not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.

She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me.

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.