Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was invented: to escape teenagers altogether.

Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain...

She hated money! though she knew it was like blood and you needed it. Still, it was also like blood in that she often couldn't stand the sight of it.

So much urgent and lifelike love went rumbling around underground and died there, never got expressed at all, so let some errant inconvenient attraction have its way. There was so little time

Every family is a family of alligators.

I've always sucked at games of chance. Always hated them for that reason.

You must understand that it is not in the nature of Man to be grateful. So in whatever you or I do for others we must never expect gratitude. If we do, we will only be disappointed.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.

I've been to some funerals where there's a lot of laughing - it's about celebrating their new journey. I can't think of anything. There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.

Not a single leaf moves in this country if I'm not the one moving it.

Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!

Encourage 'random' picks on the ball because they cannot be scouted

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.

Hell is just resistance to life.