No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Art must take reality by surprise.

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

I always believe things are going to work out.

The moment we stop fighting for each other, that's the moment we lose our humanity.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Sometimes believing is a matter of deciding. Deciding who you’re going to trust and what you know about who you trust.

I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

From thinking proceeds speaking; thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous!

God defend me from myself.

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Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient proof of the being of god.