I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Art must take reality by surprise.

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

I always believe things are going to work out.

Will we always find faults with our accommodations because of the turmoil in our own hearts?

At what point do they believe what's been branded on their skin instead of just knowing who they are on the inside.

I didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.

Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.

Not why the addiction, but why the pain.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.

Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.

Cats sleep in a state of total abandon, and I find that state very interesting in people as well.

I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….