Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Art must take reality by surprise.

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

I always believe things are going to work out.

Writing is pure sweet freedom.

If you like to fill your life with joyJust be lovingJust be caring And just be kind.

Remember this one thing baby girl, women don’t juggle…we diversify!

And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.

It turns out that I learned something from my dear old dad after all: firemen are experts at getting into places they shouldn't be.

Diplomacy is not merely talking somebody into something; it's talking to somebody from a position of strength. You put your power on the table to open up the conversation; that's diplomacy.

The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.

To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.

Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in non-juridical systems.

Though we as Christians are like Christ, having the first fruits of the spirit, yet we are unlike him, having the remainders of the flesh.