Bravery wasn’t in protecting myself from everything, it was in daring to trust, daring to love, daring to be me. Sometimes being brave meant letting go.

But home did not seem the right word for it. It hadn’t quite been home for years. Not like it used to be.

Even the bravest of us loath war, and those who long for it are the most dangerous.

Neither of us could stay within an enclosed cage for long.

Wise people problems, becomes everyone's solution. Foolish people solutions becomes everyone's problem.

If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack!

We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.

I still have that new senator smell.

I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.

Do we need a top-flight quarterback? Do human beings need air to breath?

I learned to distrust writers who talked about how they squeezed the blood onto the typewriter. They just don't want you to know how much fun they have - you'll resent it.

The society girl meets more dangers than the girl on the stage. There is more danger at a tango tea than in the theatre. The actor is less dangerous than the dancing master.

There is no bravery in evil, no true courage in behavior that can only result in deep disappointment.

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.