I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

If you treat life well, life is usually good to you. And I love life. There's a long-standing affair between us.

I've often found myself preferring second-rate people to supposedly superior people, simply and solely because of their uncontrollable tendency to bang themselves against the sides of life's vast lampshade like fireflies or moths.

There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment.

Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.