Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.

There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

The Thames was beautiful, dark, and swift beneath the billion yellow and white lights of the city…

When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.

If you look for endings you can always find one, but I truly felt as if I had used up the last of my youth, if youth is that finite stage of life when it all feels expeditionary, inexact.

Your heart is so precious to be mistreated by idiots in this world, you deserve better

Losing will not always amount to a loss, sometimes you have to lose those toxic relationships and bad habits to create a space for better things.

I should walk away. That would be the right thing to do. It would be the smart thing. But I can't, because I'm Taylor Caldwell, the girl who cuts.

There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which the criminals climbed to power and kept it.

Life is a luminous halo a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.

I earned my famous name.

I see some parallels [with Barack Obama] but I don't see the leadership that this guy [John F.Kennedy] had of other men and women. It's more than being the smartest guy in room.

A liar did ought to have a good memory.

Sometimes you look at a movie and you can see that the actor or actress said, 'I'm taking this onboard because I'm making a ton of money, and not because it's going to be something special.'

I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.