The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.

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.

Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.

Maybe other people's ideas of us are truer than our own.

All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself