she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness

So she viewed time spent in the land of the normal as an investigation into the world of marriage-worthy men, even if she was unsure about her own interest in marriage. There must be one solid citizen who also had a spark of life, a sense of humor and adventure.

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.

Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.

I love animated films when they are good, because they do bring a lot of emotion and heart that's very difficult to get in a live action film.

The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like the trust in paper money: it makes no sense when you really think about it. New artistic images are so vulnerable to opinion that it wouldn't take much more than a whim for a small group of collectors to decide that a contemporary artist was not so wonderful anymore, was so last year.