If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

The noisy jay swoops by and reviles me, he complains of my meow and my malingering.I too am not a bit subdued, I too am uncontrollable, I sound my splenetic yowl over the roof of the h

As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn so change of studies a dull brain.

Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.

To be influential in tomorrow's world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France.

The title is still on the cards until it's off the cards.

One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!

Maybe we'll go trick-or-treating for Halloween, and I'll go as Pia Zadora.

If you equate God's judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.

We looked into each other's eyes. I saw myself, she saw herself.

Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission; and in the end it shall carry you.