History is life; he who has not lived, or has lived only enough to write a doctoral dissertation, is too inexperienced with life to write good history.

The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do.

Beethoven and Liszt have contributed to the advent of long hair.

I find myself enjoying being alone a lot of the time, people come and people go and you have to find a way to be ok with both.

Where was the line between compassion and foolishness, kindness and weakness? And that was from her position. From theirs, it might be a line between mercy and cruelty, consideration and callousness.

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!

I don't run around feeling infused with positivity, but I'll have to be taking my last breath before I'll admit I'm dying. So I'm either optimistic or in denial.

I love the idea of the vignette, which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?

Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert.

If you will assume your desire and live there as though it were true, no power on earth can stop it from becoming a fact.

Once you have a very, very large budget, you actually look for expensive things to spend it on.

A friend giveth sympathy in trouble.