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.

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.

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.

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

Dualism::In Ralph Ellison's Invisible ManI am outside of history. i wish i had some peanuts, it looks hungry there in the cage.i am outside of history. its hungrier than i thot.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more think less and stop watching ourselves live.

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band.

I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.

I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.

Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.

They erase my face with a layer of pale makeup and draw my features back out.