Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.

What will survive of us is love.

Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP

Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.

Be optimistic like a flower. A flower never loses her optimism, and will bloom with all of her beauty despite tremendous adversity.

Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

I have exactly as much rhythm as you think I have.

Which of my Jewish roots do I follow?

Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

When you don't have much money, you get creative. There's so much money that gets wasted on big movie sets. But when you don't have much money, you improvise.

a man doesn't prove he's a man by getting an erection. He's only a real man if he can pleasure a woman. And if he can pleasure a prostitute, he'll think he's the best lover on the block" -Nyah

I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important.