The White House is one of the few places in downtown Washington where you can get something to eat after 11 o'clock at night.

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can't send away for it in a catalogue. And I'm afraid it's becoming obsolete.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology.

Seal my lips on aches and pains. They are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Moments. A couple of moments that people remember, that they can take with them, is what makes a good movie.

Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

Love is about giving freedom and power, not about gaining control or possession.

Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.

suffering is a misunderstood pain

Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.

Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.

Seek above all for a game worth playing- such is the advice of the oracle to modern man.

Sympathy feels like a performative word, whereas empathy is human.

It's really hard when you break up with somebody, or somebody breaks up with you, and you're in this band; guess who you have to see in the next day in the hotel in the breakfast room? That person.

Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.