Well, just remember--all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.

Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery by looking miserable yourself. That's my philosophy. This is why I always wore makeup and jewelry into the jungle-nothing too extravagant, but maybe just a nice gold bracelet and some earrings, a little lipstick, good perfume. Just enough to show that I still had my self-respect.

To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into... rhetoric and plot.

You have no idea how strong my love is!

For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities.

I've read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience.

There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.