I have been here five days. I have decided on a place to eat in at midday, a place to eat in at night, a place to have my drink in after dinner. I have arranged my little life.

Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.

You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.

A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.

I am the only real truth I know.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.

Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.

Sadly, racial, ethnic, and cultural hatred and intolerance are not just history, they are current events.

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

If you're brave enough to follow truth it will shatter you and your illusions at the same time.

The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded.

Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks.

It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature

Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.

She sacrificed her life to make things right," Mitchell grumbled. "She[Silena Beuregard] was a hero

Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.

one never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow.