“Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.”

“A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”

“I want the world to see my body.”

“My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on.”

“I'm going to be a great movie star some day.”

“Adult males are what their moms designed them.”

“Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.”

“What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.”