All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Art must take reality by surprise.

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

I always believe things are going to work out.

And, in the endThe love you takeis equal to the love you make.

True love is when you love someone without hesitation, without expectations, and without judgment.

Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.

It is a world of startling possibilities.

I didn't think of what I was doing as political. To me it was a way to make the best out of what I liked to do privately, which was to dress up.

From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It

I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.

The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it.