So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.

Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.

The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color - oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples.

She should have know that villains often come with pretty faces.

It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.

So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.

You don’t need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self.

It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.

She was full of some strange energy that morning. Her every movement had purpose and life and she seemed to find satisfaction in every little thing.

Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.

I've always believed in savoring the moments. In the end, they are the only things we'll have.

A girl who truly knows herself is a girl that everybody else wants to know.

Henry was thinking of the younger Holland sister of the way she could go from being an impetuous girl to a knowing woman in a few seconds and never lose the stars in her eyes.

The secret to happiness is a good sense of humor with adult content.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

You need help when you're starting out. On the other hand, some people are very naturalistic to begin with.

It's as if someone vacuumed up the horizon while we were looking the other way.

I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.

Investigative journalism has been relegated to a very, very tiny space in America. We don't really have much investigative journalism left. And the last refuge for it is documentary filmmaking.

The older we get the less afraid we are.

I have a penchant for playing God's clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God's clown.