Ben made me laugh. I was attracted to his attraction for me: the way he smiled for instance, whenever he saw me, that goofy kind of grin that hijacks the face of the helplessly smitten.

I was grateful to Ben the way you are grateful to someone who is unexpectedly kind.

I wanted blood to signify life, not death.

If Fran Lebowitz and Ian Fleming had blessed the world with a love child it would have been author J. Fields Jr.

I have every expectation that cancer will become known as the disease of human evolution trying and failing to adapt to a significantly changed environment.

He lives vividly in her recollections, however, and his memory is etched on her soul.

The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.

The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.

Bread without love is like grass without salt -- the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

I just swung for the fence. That's my whole philosophy in life.