Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.

Nobody's really paying that much attention to your massive personal dramas.

In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.

I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.

I've ruined my eyes, I've ruined my health from my studiousness!

It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.

Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be sacrificed is not easy.