If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.

He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery - love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. Deluded.

Luck is believing you're lucky.

I don't think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we're all ambiguous sexually.

You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!

They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!

In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.