"The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different."

“If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.”

“Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.”

Source : Guy Davenport (1997). “The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays”, p.5, David R. Godine Publisher

“You have to break in half to love somebody.”

“The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.”

Source : Der Teutsche Merkur, Volume 20, p. 214, 1781.

“Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.”

Source : 'Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy' (1830) sect. 6 'Jeremy Bentham'

“Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.”

“But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you--knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't let it break you when you discover that.”

“The new co-operation government will do the best it can to address the country's problems, and I believe that with the co-operation of all - and the new government stresses this - and the unity of all, we will achieve that.”