I really only have Perfect Fun with myself. Other people won't stop and look at the things I want to look at or, if they do, they stop to please me or to humor me or to keep the peace.

conversation is like a dear little baby that is brought in to be handed round. You must rock it, nurse it, keep it on the move if you want it to keep smiling.

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.

Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.

What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss - absolute bliss - as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle into every finger and toe?

You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.

You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom.