If you think I'm one of the people who try to be funny at breakfast you're wrong. I'm invariably illtempered in the early morning.

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost.

Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.

I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.

Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.

Forgive yourself when you fall down because we all fall down.

New exit, new entry!

…love grown dutiful is love grown olda withered cupid faltering at the bow…

The older I get, the clearer it becomes to me that no one is cheated in this world, unless it's by himself.

I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?

That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!

George W. Bush did not go on television to trash [Donald] Trump.

Remember someone is going to be out, so don’t make it you.

We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

Only the smaller fish pay for the goverment's face-lift. The big ones - they just become bigger and fatter.