If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me.

It is difficult when reading the description of certain fictional characters not at the same time to imagine the real-life acquaintances who they most closely, if often unexpectedly, resemble.

When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also a quilt.

After every temptation you will be either closer to God or further from Him.

It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything.

I greatly admired Gypsy [Rose Lee] for being able to rise above her circumstances; I was terrified of her; I thought she was generous; I thought she was brilliant; I thought she was cruel.

I want to be an artist, not an erotic freak. I don’t want to be sold to the public as a celluloid aphrodisiac.

Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls

Most people don't have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.

You'll see. I'm as good as any boy. I'm better. - Kel

So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on't.