So difficult is it for us to know, with the dead as with the living, whether a thing would cause them joy or sorrow!

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

Every woman feels that the greater her power over a man, the more impossible it is to leave him except by sudden flight: a fugitive precisely because a queen.

But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream.

She was capable of causing me pain, but no longer any joy. Pain alone kept my wearisome attachment alive.

As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past.

I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence.

I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.

We consider it innocent to desire, and heinous that the other person should do so.

I try to construct a theory of how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.

Get in touch with your intuitive and creative powers, bring your desires to life in order to create a life of bliss.

Tupperware? I don’t know. That’s what my mom did.”“Well, my mom had to bring bigger containers for food when the family ate outdoors. But she usedthis when she and Dad . . .

Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.

Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough.

It's very hard, for most of us to tolerate being loved.

How long an actress lives professionally depends on her stamina, the extent of her masochism, her imagination, and her yearning for recognition or approval.

Designing bridal is perfect for me, because black is my least favorite color, if you could call it a color.

In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.