"For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over again."
"It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did."
"I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't."
"An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional."
"I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything."
"The victor belongs to the spoils."