I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do.... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery.

Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.

A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own.

One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion.