They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.