What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate?

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.

Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines.

The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea wouldn't catch on big in her native country until the last three years of the Vietnam War.

...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.

So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend.