A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

I don't want to be pigeonholed into doing just romantic comedies. But they're fun, and especially for women, it's nice to go to see them and enjoy that breath of fresh air.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

We need a romantic illusion to embark on relationships in the first place. After that, they survive or fail for other, more practical reasons.

Troy was a sweet, good man. We just were never destined to be married. We just didn't have the same values. But I'm not bitter. He taught me how to laugh.