Don't borrow trouble. The interest is too high.

The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.

the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

Shrews are made, not born.

You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim.

There is no such thing as an ex-exhibitionist.

When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none.

Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.

When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them.

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.

What's on your billboard?

The mill wheel turns it turns forever though what is uppermost remains not so.

I've always thought of myself as a businesswoman. I have the creative side, but I also have this business sense.

Essentially any history we have is just a history of aristocrats. We don't have any history of people.

Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?

It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person.

A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.

I admire natural, untouched beauty.

Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.