I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

Let’s talk about love, Baby Let’s talk about our dreams ...Just in your arms ...Oh I’ll be safe it seems…

We are what ballads are written of, what bards sing of. We are epic, you and I.

For a moment, I felt like myself again. Not the new me, not the old me, just the real me.

I love dark chocolate - I could eat it 'til I puke.

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring of delight as the sweet modulation of her voice?

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

I'll usually run an ice-cube over my skin to close all the pores. That's pretty much my daily routine.

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them.