"Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not a musical person."

“Sundays are terrible because it is clear that there is no one in charge of the world. And this knowledge leave you drifting around, grappling with unfulfilled expectations and vague yearnings.”

“A non-event ... is better to write about than an event, because with a non-event you can make up the meaning yourself, it means whatever you say it means.”

“Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar.”

“Because the world to-day is so constructed that no one can do what he would like to do, and he is forced, instead, to do what others wish him to do. Because the question of money always intrudes—into what we do, into what we are, into what we wish to become, into our work, into our highest aspirations, even into our relations with the people we love!”

Source : Alberto Moravia (2011). “Contempt”, p.170, New York Review of Books

“Do you know who I am? Why, have you forgotten?”

“It's really important to keep sponsoring young people so the audience gets used to them and starts enjoying them. They're the only way your show can keep going, otherwise it's going to burn out in one or two years. Hopefully you're creating your headliners of the future.”

“Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak.”

Source : "20 Questions Every Woman Should Ask Herself". O, The Oprah Magazine Interview, www.oprah.com. April, 2014.

“Take thy self-denials gaily and cheerfully, and let the sunshine of thy gladness fall on dark things and bright alike, like the sunshine of the Almighty.”