I realized that poverty was a kind of captivity.

The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.

A clock only turns one direction

I dream of land, cut only where streams glistened with birdsong wander through quiet hills burnt hard by the scrape of wind, and of a porch from which a single road leads only homeward.

How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?

How fragile our lives are anyway. How quickly things can change forever.

Getting out of bed is a good way to leave your troubles behind.

The best cure for sadness is doing something.

Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing, I think.

We are a noisy and blessed little family

[Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and there like patchwork in their lives.

Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.

Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand.

We can sum up the surrealist distinction between 'literature' and 'poetry' by saying where the former is artificial, fictive and elusive, the latter is natural, real, direct and spontaneous.

Facing the backside of the future is the only way to move forward

Every morning when I wake up, I am grateful and happy that I come to the film set. It is home.

He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.

Life is too short for men to take it seriously.

Home is wherever I go.

For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

You're in love? Out Out of love? I love someone. She doesn't love me.