If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking

As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.

One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.

I am crying over the elusive nature of love.

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.