I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it that start being frightened.

There are only three events in a man's life birth life and death he is not conscious of being born he dies in pain and he forgets to live.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

If what you do is being threatened as a profession that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing and some of us unfortunately don't make it there and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being for whom death is not only necessary but frequently even desirable.

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead and a very rare species.

The Peking man was a thinking being standing erect dating to the beginning of the Ice Age.

I'm not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend me. Certain women particularly older women cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.

If I'm with a man is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.

The rich are different. Their wants are very high maintenance. They'll pick eye color and hair color all the way down to what she does for a living what school she went to. Their list can be extremely long. But at the end of the day dating is dating because they're human beings.

People say 'Just say who you're dating. Then people will stop being so ravenous about it.' It's like No they won't! They'll ask for specifics.

I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it.

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend' and now I am happy being single.

I love being a single mom. But it's definitely different when you're dating.

I didn't have a financial need and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.