I didn't have an interest in school at all and was getting in trouble all the time.

I'm the luckiest unlucky person.

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.

I start crying when certain things come up, certain memories, certain feelings, and it's intense. But I think it's good for me - and therapeutic.

Life can very genuinely and realistically pile things on. It doesn't dole out the heartache and pain, or joy, perfectly.

When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.

I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).

When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.

My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

I didn't know whether I'd be attractive to anybody.

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

The apparent is never the real.

She didn’t want to die. She couldn’t imagine wanting to die…Death was for—for other people.

What we love to do we find time to do.

My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.

Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!

You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe.

If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.

I once had a dream about getting a marriage, house in the country, and at the end of the day we'd retire, but I'm never going to retire.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.