Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.
[Emily Litella line:] Never mind.
What we put into every moment is all we have. You can drug yourself to death or you can smoke yourself to death or eat yourself to death, or you can do everything right and be healthy and then get hit by a car. Life is so great, such a neat thing, and yet all during it we have to face death, which can make you nuts and depressed.
I'm not really an impersonator.
I love being a woman. You can cry. You get to wear pants now. If you're on a boat and it's going to sink, you get to go on the rescue boat first. You get to wear cute clothes. It must be a great thing, or so many men wouldn't be wanting to do it.
. . . I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well.
It is so hard for us little human beings to accept this deal that we get. It's really crazy, isn't it? We get to live, then we have to die. . . . What spirit human beings have! It is a pretty cheesy deal - all the pleasures of life, and then death.
Most of the things one worries about never happen.
Unlike the Concord, the Merrimack is not a dead but a living stream, though it has less life within its waters and on its banks. It has a swift current, and, in this part of its course, a clayey bottom, almost no weeds, and comparatively few fishes.
Everything's happened to me. Nothing can happen to me now.
Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.