I want a dress the color of suffering

All monsters have their fits of depression.

A caprice is handled like a stew, and the pepper is added at the last minute.

An error of the passions is not the flowering of a great love, and merely the beauty of the human form is not capable of inspiring an eternity of mad attachment.

Ah! A man who doesn't know how to watch love is so silly. You really need a lesson.

We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.

If you ask, you shall receive what you desire.

Things can change in a day.

Perhaps the greatest display of self-discipline is persisting when the going gets tough. Persistence is self-discipline in action.

Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped.

When love ends, we cry out against destiny. When friendship ends, we cry out against our friend.

Dreams are only the image of outward things shown on an inward mirror. But the mirror is the soul's enclosing darkness.

There's a sameness and comfort level you get living in a country like America.

Over-niceness may be under-niceness.

Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.