People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine.

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost.

Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.

I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.

Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.

We must surrender ourselves to God, not our assignments.

Look inside, and be your own guide.

It reminded him of the truth—who he really was, and the fact that no matter how far he ran, his past would be right there with him.

We often forgive those who bore us but can't forgive those whom we bore.

Love knows how to do without what it naturally wants. Love knows how to say, 'What does it matter.'

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet. [When the tree is fallen, all go with their hatchet.]

Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down.

The fight to make ends meet, keeps a man upon his feet.

I inhabit the wax image of myself, a doll's body. Sickness begins here; I am a dartboard for witches.