The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.

I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.

Burt Bacharach

I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.

Loretta Young

She was one of those women of good family who no longer exist, elegant, distinguished, and haughty, whose pallor and thinness seem to say, 'I am conquered by the era, like all my breed. I am dying, but I despise you,' and - devil take me! - plebeian as I am, and though it is not very philosophical , I cannot help finding that beautiful.

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

One chance is all you need.

Jesse Owens

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

Jane Austen

I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say, How can we screw this kid up.

Russell Bishop

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.

Stephen King

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Ronald Reagan

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

John Ciardi

Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.

Mitt Romney

Only in your imagination can you revise.

Fay Wray

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.

Rem Koolhaas