The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

There no such thing as something! Why? Because everything's already turning into something else!

What better hiding place than an old, woodlice-ridden album of photographs!

Wisdom is the intelligence of the system as a whole.

A little bait catches a large fish.

I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.'

Do you suppose she's a wildflower?

Too timid to talk back, I shot my adversary.

It is the broken heart that makes us human in the end.

When I have time to sit and reflect on the different situations that I face every day, I'll be able to speak more succinctly about the challenges as a woman.

My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.