Shut up, Arthur, ' said my mother, and he zipped his mouth shut like an infuriating child.Ginger started to laugh. Not at anything in particular, but just because Ginger was stoned.

Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're special and that we're still here.

Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're still here.

Emotions embarassed her except when she sang. My dad said that was exactly why she sang.

I think repressing what happened is what saved me in my childhood. I was able to use my imagination to create happy events, but a little girl can carry only so much on her own.

Materialism is an identity crisis.

All the movies that I have done I have not been in control of. Sometimes there is a contractual situation where you go to the studio, and they kind of tell you which ones they want you to do.

He [the Rev. Mr. Whitefield] used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard.

My stockbroker asked me something important today: paper or plastic?

We all need to be blind sometimes in order to see.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby.

Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it.

Alas, our frailty is the cause , not we! For, such as we are made of, such we be.