They never tell you about that either. How the hardest thing a mother has to do is give her child up, let them go, watch them run.

The sound of his sleep, the snores and sighs and small noices, is company.

I've never seen grief like it. Grief like that, it's like an animal. She's not eating. She's not sleeping. She's whimpering. She's sluggish. She's not herself

You cannot penalize a man for one slip. Then she lay wondering about the word slip. When you slip, you fall, but maybe it is not such a sore fall because you have slipped.

I've started to feel very odd within my own life. It's most peculiar to feel lonely inside your own life.

How bizarre, i think to myself, to be on a train and to actually not want to arrive anywhere? What kind of madness is that?

What a thing it is to have music that plays your terrible thoughts. I imagined that one piece could drive more delicate women than myself to insanity.

When it rains like that, dark in the afternoon, you feel like you've been taken into the past.

I didn't feel like I was missing anything. Nor did I feel ambitious any more. It all seemed stupid wanting to be better than the others in the same ring, shallow, pointless.

To live a selfish life is the fastest track to catastrophe

The past will disappear if we forget we existed".

I'd rather have less time than I think, than less think than I have time.

The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

I want a man as nice as my retarded dog, but one that doesn't crap on the floor.

To achieve vital harmony in a picture it must be constructed out of parts in themselves incomplete, brought into harmony only at the last stroke.

Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.

People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.

I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think.

There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel.