April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom golden in the green grass, this life can be.

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now

There isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don't know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it.

Radio was theater of the mind.

Freedom is what's left when the belief systems deconstruct.

If you're the only hot dog stand in town, you're hot dogs don't have to be good.

You have to grow the same way that you're seeing your own kids grow.

Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.

Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.

If I don't do this film. I'll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.

I have a strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity.

You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.