I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.

My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.

I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it.

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.

Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating.

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

I've learned that nobody's perfect, and I don't expect myself to be perfect anymore.

Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.

My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.

Stop selling your life for peanuts.

Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.

"Statesman" gives the impression that every time a major issue comes up, I'll be popping off. And that's not what's going to happen.

Theres no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and thats allocated according to political muscle.

The shot heard round the world.

O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!