No one's serious at seventeen, When lindens line the promenades

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn

Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Je est un autre. (I is someone else).

But all the magic I have knownI've had to make myself.

I get so sad that sad gets to be.So scared that all my feelings they up and leave me. I got so city girl on you. I go so crazy I don't know what to do.

To me, comedy is a game.

It's a town you come to for a short time.

I build my cars to go, not to stop.

For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

If one has faith, one has everything.

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says.