Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.
Dammit. . . Don't you dare ask God to help me.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are
I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.
You know the troubles I've had with my two older children. I can't understand why it turned out so badly. I tried to give them everything. I loved them and tried to keep them near me, even when they didn't return my love. Well, I couldn't make them love me, but they could have shown some respect. I couldn't insist on love, but I could insist on respect.
Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.
My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.
This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.
I'm a believer that the more I'm giving, the happier I am, and the more beautiful my exterior will be.
But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.