Although most advice should be distrusted, particularly when it comes from myself . . . keep an open mind, Miss Hathaway. One should never look a rich husband in the mouth." - St. Vincent

I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.

The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.

...whether he stayed or left, whether they walked the same path or not. They could live on opposite sides of the world, and she would still be his.

But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.

I know when something is too important to be decided by logic.

She shook her head as she confessed, "I want it so much, I'm afraid to hope." "Never be afraid to hope, " Rohan said gently. "It's the only way to begin." -Rohan to Win

I'm not the marrying kind -"St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.

Be that as it may, I think someday you'll meet a man worth giving up your independence for.

It was the first time she had ever felt the kind of loneliness that couldn't be cured with just any available company.

I don't want adventure.""I think you do. I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.

To say that death opposes life is just the same as you would say you live the absolute truth.

She wasn't sad. Not sad, more like... empty.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album.

The best roles have risks... and those are the parts I'm interested in.

People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.

In this world, the spots where the present seems to overlap the past are the most important. These are the points when one becomes aware that the direction of the world can change.

Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward life with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.

I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.