A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient.

Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.

Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

each separate flower has a magic all its own.

I've always thought my flowers had souls.

Silence always gives consent.

When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill.

A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.

Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.

The things that are ours cannot be given away, or taken away, or lost. We break our hearts, all of us, trying to keep things that do not belong to us — and to which we have no right.

Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.

Sub-consciousness does not set its own goal but helps to achieve the goals that have already been set

It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

One cat just leads to another.

Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

One of the terrible things about doing movies is that the writers never consider the temperature outside.

When I'm shooting, really the audience I'm thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like the film and that first opening weekend audience.

I find it a great antidote lipstick and mirrors and hairspray.

We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.

I can't give up that quick My life is a candle and a wick You can put it out, but you can't break it down In the end we are waiting to be lit

he'd know that I think that . . . well, that bending an enemy's will through military force is the absolute last way a nation ought to go about solving their problems.