I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

I would want forever with you.

In the dream world, anything is possible. It requires a fertile imagination, and a desire to explore the half-light between the known and the unknown.

Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.

After night comes day. After death comes life. Even at your darkest time look around because you are never really alone. You are loved.

Girls are like slugs - they probably serve some purpose, but it's hard to imagine what.

None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get the future.

I feel like I've been a Yankee my whole life.

You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life.

Feelings are never stupid, they just make us feel stupid sometimes.