Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily. Sacrifices are necessary.

Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.

You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.

A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.

I am the only real truth I know.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.

Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.

Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

Sometimes funny is all you've got.

It was just a tiny moment. Not a kiss, not even real contact. But for all the things it wasn't, it meant so much.

Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy let us enjoy it.

No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.

Drugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor.

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.

The difference between a thief and a congressman: When a thief steals your money, he doesn't expect you to thank him.