What is art? Nature concentrated.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

For several moments, Mary couldn't hear anything over the violent pounding of her pulse.

I want you to live, and go on living, and let everyone else live, too.

Intuition matters but, pay more attention to the unconscious bias.

I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter.

That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.

As if there were safety in stupidity alone

I don't want to be seen as the kind of person who does things and then expects publicity in return.

You're whatever you think you are. People like to compartmentalize other people. I don't worry about what other people think. I'm not living for them.

I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die

I want to be the best daughter, sister, friend and wife I can possibly be - because when I die, I am not going to be buried with my Oscar.