It was enough to drive me mad. I was no longer myself and yet I was so much more me than I had ever been before. ~Katherine Demure

I came from across the ocean and through the wilderness and landed here and found you hiding behind a tapestry. My fate was sealed at the sight of your stockinged feet.~Viktor von Strassenberg

It is hard to be true to yourself because it is hard to be yourself.

Never read a book that is not a year old.

Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.

The rules you were given were the rules that worked for the person who created them.

Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!

Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.

There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.

Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology.

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.