We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.

Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. i just lump everything in a great heap which i have labeled ‘the past,’ and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, i am ready to continue.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

I'm just not the same. Half of me is out there looking for you and the other half is wishing i didn't have to." I don't want to live - I want to love first, And live incidentally. Don't-don't ever think of the things you can't give me-You've trusted me with the dearest heart of all-and it's so damn much more than anybody else in all the world has ever had.

There's nothing on earth to do here but look at the view and eat. You can imagine the result since I do not like to look at views.

She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.

Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.