I am too dark in my heart tonight.

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.

I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?

Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.

Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.

Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.

I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

To understand history, ' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.

Trust can be broken in just a few seconds, but it will only heal after years

We are not meant to spend the rest of our lives underground. We need to go home and tell a strange story that no one will believe.

Southerners smile more than other Americans.

I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.

I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

Love is the greatest form of loyalty, one that places happiness of the beloved over the lover.

I wanted to make a record that sounded like a continous piece

Your story is where you take it to, not where you start.