Trust your instincts. If you have no instincts, trust your impulses.

I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere.

Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.

An infant prodigy of nine is shoved upon the stage in white. She starts off in a dismal whine about a dark and stormy night, a burglar, whose heart is true, despite his wicked-looking face, who puts the little child in doom, to save her mamma's jewel case. This may bring tears to every eye; it does not set my heart on fire. I'd like to stand serenely by and watch that horrid child expire.

As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.

AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.

It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but my own.