you roll me out flat

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.

For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.

She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

Oh, I've no patience with these romances. They're the ruin of all order. It's a thousand pities they ever happened

Men don’t think, high and low-alike, they take what a woman does for them for granted.

I only want one thing of men, and that is, that they should leave me alone.

It was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned exchange of talk. Love was only a minor accompaniment.

Only having valued a thing, can you truly be thankful. You can not be sincerely thankful for what you have not valued.

Red lips like a living, laughing rose.

I slept little, read a lot, and fell in love frequently.

I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way.

Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.

The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather.

You give before you get.

David Mamet, Tim Kazurinsky, and Denise DeClue, who adapted [ About Last Night]. Between the three of them... I mean, it's always down to the writing. You're only as good as your writing.

So much time is currently spent in worrying about the future that the present is allowed to go to hell.

I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?