Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't.

I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated.

Good things happen when you go for it!

Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs.

Just in case God isn't dead, our astronauts carry sidearms.

People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get.

The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.

Damn description, it is always disgusting.

Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.