Honore de Balzac

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

I see a lot of actors for whom life becomes one big schedule. I guess I try to be more sensitive to my private life - to take a breath of fresh air and be in the countryside or on a golf course.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.