When you're dealing with your life, my God, you gotta tell the truth.

There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently they live a long time.

Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.

I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do.

It gets tiring being a smartass.

I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.

This is a time in my life where I'm gonna behave like an elegant human being. Or not.

I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.

if somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! you're wasting my time.

Everybody's got a sack of rocks.

I love holidays in New York. I love 'em. I want to celebrate something all the time and New York has holidays for every day of the week, practically. I like holidays in New York City.

I tend the wounded, /and in the tending, wound./Sometimes truly seeing another/is lethal./Loving fully, a bayonet.

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.

I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday.

My goal is to spread the word about the need for more blood donors.

The terrorist threat has decreased in some ways, because Bin Laden is dead.

Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.