I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.

Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds.

... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.

A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.

I want to fill every part of you, breathe the air from your lungs and leave my handprints on your soul. I want to give you more pleasure than you can bear.

You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

He was my confidant, the person who was always on my side even when he wasn't taking my side.

Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~ Liberty Jones

A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him.

I've always thought it was about finding the right person. But it's about choosing the right person, isn't it?

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little bit of each other everywhere.

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.

He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.

There needs to be conviction and action behind rules.

When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much. [When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot be much.]

Europe was founded as a community bound together by solidarity.

At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you.