What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.

You never have to choose between being the pure artist or the craven, sellout entertainer. You can be both.

It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too serious.

Theres plenty of great independent films to do, but you cant support yourself making independent film as an actress.

If you show people how much you care and ask questions in a non threatening way, you'll be amazed by how much they'll tell you.

I like the physical challenge. It's fun for me.

An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral.

When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose.

The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.