Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.

I think every year I become happier because I become more comfident and more comfortable in my own skin.

You don't have to wear expensive clothes to look good.

I need a coffee to go with my coffee.

Humor is a part of spirituality.

It's never too late for a coffee. After all it's morning somewhere in the world.

A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

Don't allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

All of us admire people we don't like and like people we don't admire.

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.

It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television.

The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.