“Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.” — George Cukor Quote

Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.

Women's director! Well, I'm very pleased to be considered a master of anything, but remember, for every Jill there was a Jack. People like to pigeonhole you - it's a shortcut, I guess, but once they do, you're stuck with it.

It never occurred to me that I could live in California. Now I can't imagine living anywhere else.

I don't think you can teach people how to be funny. You can make suggestions about how to speak a line or get a laugh, but it has to be in them.

I choose my actors well and get to know the quirks of their personalities - and, most of all, I share humor with them. Then I keep my eyes open when they rehearse and perform, because you never know where the next stimulation comes from.

Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words?

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.