If Strength comes through Suffering, why then I should be the strongest of all women, yet I am the weakest. God help me. Help me.

God may forgive you if He chooses, but not I. Au revoir.

I want to be Tragedy, I want to be Juliet, I want to be Romeo. Thus with a kiss I die.

Heyday, now that is a funny word ain't it? Part of a heyday is, you don't never know you are having yourself one till later when it's all over with, long gone.

People can act so nice, bringing you food and all, but in the end they are nothing but buzzards. Waiting to pick your bones.

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.

Family is a fortress.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

And involuntarily I compared the childish sarcasm, the religious sarcasm of Voltaire with the irresistible irony of the German philosopher whose influence is henceforth ineffaceable.

Maybe people [in Hollywood] wear really nice clothes, and they drive really nice cars, but that doesn't make me comfortable. And if I'm not comfortable, it won't be a part of my life.

I like getting carried away by what is happening and then decide each scene based on the actors, the set and the light.

One can be unhappy before eating caviar, even after, but at least not during.

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.

Three keys to success: read, read, read.