Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.

When you're acting, you're a person. When you're modeling, you're a hanger.

Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.

I don't like to be second in anything. I was trying, I just wasn't going anywhere.

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

It's natural to be afraid of replacing everything you already gained by a dream.

Every character in each of my movies is a different side of myself.

You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

No one tells me what to think. I think for me.

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?