We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.

Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.

You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.

A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.

I am the only real truth I know.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.

Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

There is much that I do not know and I'd like to know even less.

If freedom rings, then bondage bombs.

You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

I would rather spend one night with Dracula dead than with my husband alive.

The public citizenship oath done in a court in front of a judge and one's fellow citizens should be done publicly.

I'm two decisions away from putting up drywall for a living. I am, and there's nothing wrong with that, but whatever I got, it's through the grace of God, and I've got to use it right.

The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.

It is a basic tenet throughout the Scriptures that God rewards diligence, faithfulness, endurance, and steadfastness.

All human behavior is either an act of love or a cry for love.