In modern American style, his job, not his past, defined him.

Both of them were artists with highly developed personas, and hence unreliable witnesses to their own pasts.

The best comedy is always heartless, an alternative to rational emotion.

The odds on any intelligent person having an unhappy childhood are better than fair, and the odds on a sad ending are practically off the board.

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?'

I identified with both women. But Emma had a stronger message for the women I want to speak to now- women who work. I wanted to tell them that choosing to work…

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.