Conversely, I though humiliation would be everything, but it´s such a nothing.

My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it.

Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.

I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has met their environment, here in the void. I understand perfectly.

In so many senseless deaths, beauty is to blame.

Why is edamame always ready to expire? It´s so urgent for a vegetable. Edamame. It sounds like an assisted form of suicide. Is there an advertising concept in this?

I used to loathe ambivalence now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.

The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce.

They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.

Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.

I love you as the mother of my child": the kiss of death.Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self.

If we win by losing ourselves, by losing what we were fighting for, then we never really win.

Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.

The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.

I'm not a potato sack; I've never sat on my couch. If I'm home, I'm cleaning, feeding my dogs, doing stuff. Life is too precious to waste time.

The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,--the soldiery and the priesthood.

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by failures.

Today is February 14th - St. Valentine's day. Women call it Love day, while men name it as Extortion day.

He's no more human than I am, ma petite." At least I'm not dead." That can be remedied.

As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.

I forget about the relationship between myself and any actress when working with her.