She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?

How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.

If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.

She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.

I’d rather be known as a freak than a science project.

Your actions and approach with what you have, will showcase to others what you would be able to do with more.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce.

That's a journey I've been on for many years. I mean, being a working mother, realizing that I have to make and find my balance.

If we're being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.

Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you.

It has become a fashion to declare a package after every crisis. The time has come to pack those who keep giving these packages that don't reach the farmers.

Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?

I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.