I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.

If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.

George Saunders

I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.

Ava Gardner

I can't stop shaking. I need you. I want you. I can't let myself have you.

Kelli Maine

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

David Seabury

The life of a plural wife, she'd found, was a life lived under constant comparison, a life spent wondering. Sitting across from her sister-wives at Sunday dinner, the platters and serving dishes floating past like hovercraft, the questions were almost inescapable; Who of us is the most happy? Which of us is his one true love? Who does he desire the most?

Brady Udall

Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.

Matthew Fox

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Thomas Kempis

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

John Lennon

Enthusiasm. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Ambrose Bierce

Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man's dream --and yet God blesses it!

Georges Bernanos

They are the books, the arts, the academes,That show, contain and nourish all the world.

William Shakespeare