That night, we talked the way old friends do, with candor and ease.

First love, " said Ida with a sigh. "That's the one that kills you.

Because sooner or later, all kinds of love - crazy love, wild love- fade into the same thing. The love becomes old and predictable -safe.

Audrey, if you had the choice, would you rather be his muse or be in his arms?" "I want to be both. I know it's the exception rather than the rule, but I can't hepl what I want.

I can't believe how hard it is. The pain is indescribable. It's like I've been turned into sandstone and my insides are being slowly hollowed out by a chisel and mallet.

Your first love isn't the first person you give your heart to- it's the first one who beaks it.

Our emotions pull us in different directions. The stronger the emotion, the greater the pull. Feelings are not always practical, nor do they make any logical sense. That's just the way it goes.

You can create something that is pure genius, but you have to get your timing right.

Writing is a conduit. It opens up a passageway into the past. Not just for the writer, but for the reader too. Both readers and writer are linked by the commonality of human experience.

As long as we have life, we keep love and hope alive.

Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.

Oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts.

Design my own line? No, I just like the culture.

Though I carry always some ill-nature about me, yet it is, I hope, no more than is in this world necessary for a preservative.

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.

We live in a time where everybody has an opinion and everyone's opinion can be featured somewhere, whether it's an online column and everybody has their form because of the internet.

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

What keeps us from achieving our heart's desires is not anything outside of us, it's the conflict inside.

In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.