Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

Spiritual love is when you see new faces as the oldest.

I would never dream of killing an excellent tailor, not even to keep a secret that could endanger my life.

I'm very good at getting up in the morning - so much of my life has been spent on film sets where we start at the crack of dawn.

Music doesn't solve your problems..but allows you to dance all over them

When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.

Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily.

There's a lot to be said for quitters. Those people who are extremely good at one thing got that way by quitting almost everything else.

There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.

Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.