Love is a serious mental disease.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

I’m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

Where there is love there is life.

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

I never fall in love.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

Those whom the gods love grow young.