“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”

For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

We all have souls of different ages.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.

Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing.

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.

She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.

Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.

Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.