I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men — at least they can cry.

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.

If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.

With an old head and a young heart, you can be a source of real strength [to others] who need your cheer and encouragement.

Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create...

The point is, people have been having babies for thousands of years. There will be frightening moments and exhausting moments, but more than anything---" "--- there will just be love.

There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.

Is all anger sin? No, but some of it is. Even God Himself has righteous anger against sin, injustice, rebellion and pettiness.

A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.

The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.

With all the things I've been through, the No. 1 thing that I've learned is that we're supposed to help people through this world.

Love is not blind. Love sees what is most true