What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.

What you can't run away from, you have to face

Are you listening, little bird?

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.

That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

He stared at his hot chocolate like it held the secret to the universe.

But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine it loses its grip.

To be human, is to be able to love the unlovable, and hope when things appear hopeless

make your worst day is the best day in your life, because surely there's something missing within our self without it, so we can be who we are now, the wiser and the mature one

I get weary of the European habit of taking our money, resenting any slight hint as to what they should do, and then assuming, in addition, full right to criticize us as bitterly as they may desire.

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

When all else fails, philosophize.

I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.

Currently a level of unemployment of 7% or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation.