Slander is the balm of malignity.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.

Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.

She broke my heart over and over, day after day, but I love her.

We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?

I don't hide or play stupid games.

My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, I'd visit him every day.

Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.

Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.

I love watching foreign films on my projector at home along with my closely knit group of friends and family. I also love to dissect movies and discuss them with my friends who are movie buffs.