Husband and wife have no time left to spend together. Marriage took away our one reason for getting married.

I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.

You don't have to beat a woman if you can make her feel guilty.

We came to realize how little married couples see of each other once they crawl in the bourgeois box.

Maybe marriages are best in middle age. When all the nonsense falls away and you realize you have to love one another because you're going to die anyway.

We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're supposed to work and suffer - and the trouble is: you believe it.

Tears are a form of communication - like speech - and require a listener.

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but having no outlet, it implodes in a great fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul.

Shane met him owing to the storybooks she studied to discover what attributes made one princessly—this wasn't technically a word, but she felt there should be equity in adjectives if not in life.

Childhood is the barrel they give you/to go over the falls in.

If you wait to figure out everything before starting anything, it'll never happen.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

We touched base at several strategic locations down our bodies, and it took all my willpower to break away.

I come from the very heart of America.

I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.

Long John Silver's wife, Short, who said to John, If the shoe fits... Never got a dinner!

If I wasn't doing modeling, I'd like to study child psychology.

One can never study nature too much and too hard