“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.”

“Nor age so eat up my invention.”

“Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?”

“Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.”