“Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth.”

“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?”

“Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.”

“. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.”

“Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?”

“I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.”

“I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. I didn't like feeling like that.”

“I felt like a failure, like somehow my self-worth was tied to my ability to procreate. I didn't feel like I could talk about it. I did not want other people's pity, so I mostly kept my story and my...”

“My failures may be my greatest successes. It is in failure that I have often drawn closer to God, learn to depend more on Him than myself, gained self-knowledge, and seen things in their right pers...”

“Shakespeare, in some sense, helped create the modern man, didn't he, his influence is that pervasive. He held the mirror up to nature, but he also created that mirror: so the image he created is th...”

“The world is a mirror of ourselves.”

“There is but one reality, that is true -- but the two of you experience it in slightly different ways. The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is v...”

“I must confess that I do not understand why things are so arranged, that women seize us by the nose as deftly as they do the handle of a teapot: either their hands are so constructed, or else our n...”

“Nothing is more on the nose,than sun cream.”

“I've always been quite famous for my nose.”