"Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion."

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."

"I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace."

"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life."

"Video is freeing, but also lazier. You have to recreate the love of the moment."

"No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes."

"O, it sets my heart a-clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock."

"You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room."