there is no action kind enough to express heartbreak. I am left shut, the quietest of blossoms.

My friend, you are truly yourself alone. God must have broken the mould after turning you out.

One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.

I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living

From what I was able to hear," Dane said, "Tara dumped off a surprise baby with your mother, who's planning to sell it on eBay." "Social Services," I said. "She hasn't thought of eBay yet.

I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress

With every farewell comes a hidden hope.

Between being 'right' and being kind, I know which way I vote.

To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person.