No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day.

All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.

I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.

Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.

Basically, I am a good, gentle person, but I am attracted to mean personalities.

After all, a girl is... well, a girl. It's nice to be told you're successful at it.

We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.

Old age - that's when a woman takes vitamins A through G, and still looks like H.

What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed.

I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I'd be happy. It's so empty. It's never what I wanted, ever. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants - to be loved.

I can't take his genius any more.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Sometimes you may feel that your heart is speaking and sometimes you may feel that your mind is speaking. In reality there is only one speaker: Mind!

The Lord chose to give me back my life, not because I deserved it, but because he had work for me to do.

Threaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the heart.

We are just about to cross the 400 parts per million threshold.

Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.

A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.

When someone really respects and admires us as musicians to the extent that they want to work with us, it's really flattering.

We still have prostitutes standing on our corner, and people crapping round the back of buildings. The charms are still there.

The book is first and foremost something I made for myself.