A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Noel Coward

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

David Herbert Lawrence

You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.

Alex Morrison

I don't write for a living. I live to write.

Marwa Ayad

I once devised a test question which I put to many people to discover whether they were pessimists. The question was: If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?

Bertrand Russell

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity, intellect and resources -- to do something about them.

Henry Ford

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

Denis Diderot

I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the '70s for research. They're the funniest people in the world, yet there is this sad, beautiful thing in their eyes that says they've seen more than they could ever possibly tell you.

Kate Hudson

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

Denis Diderot

Life is short, death is forever.

Marsha Qualey

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

Brigitte Bardot

When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

Harry S Truman