The unrequited love of ones' only living offspring has its own particular slow acid burn

You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.

Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.

Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.

I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.

Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.

Never confuse belief with knowledge.

You want to be possessed, but not controlled. You want to be protected, but not smothered. You want to be dominated, but only in one way.

Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the servants offer and had said to him instead, “let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be - let me be a woman'?

Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.

Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.

When a girl cries over a guy,she really loves him.when a guy cries over a girl ,he will never love another girl like her.

Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

I'm always, all the time, eating chocolate. I eat pretty healthy, but then I go all out when it has to do with chocolate.