"There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often."

"There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s."

"A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh."

"The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for."

"Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past."

"Shakespeare gives you these clues - these little pieces of gold dust, I call them. They tell you so much about the story, the character, the drive, the intentions. It's like a gift."

"In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it."

"You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it."