"There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."

"To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream."

"I talk to God, but the sky is empty."

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."

"I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket."

"Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise."

"Changing husbands is only changing troubles."

"In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."

"To know that you do not know is the best.To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease."

"Age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."

"How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?"

"The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name."