“You could BE somebody," he said, focusing a tight shot on her face. "Honey," she said, mugging for the camera like an old time movie queen, "I already am somebody.”

“Hats, like first husbands in my experience, are usually a mistake.”

“How well can we really know another person? Peolpe can be in your lives for years - they can fill your lives. But all you really know of them are the stories they tell you. And then they die. They always leave a mystery behind.”

“You are the sole author of the story of your life, my dear. Make it a good one.”

“(about divorce): Sometimes you have to scrap your first draft and start over.”

“We need creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life.”

“We never know how big a role we play in someone else's drama.”