it may be said of me by Harper & Brothers, that although I reject their proposals, I welcome their advances.

But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom golden in the green grass, this life can be.

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now

There isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Time heals all wounds.

We have to accept that much of reality is ineffable and so to understand it we can't rely on words alone.

O month when they who love must love and wed.

Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Each and every year I feel like I've gotten a little bit better and that's always been my goal, was just to get a little bit better

Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.

You have to come up in the world before it's worthwhile for those worth less to put you down.

If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.

Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.