I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone. – Tallulah Bankhead
There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare. – Tallulah Bankhead
If I had my life to live again. Id make the same mistakes, only sooner. – Tallulah Bankhead
Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls dont have time. – Tallulah Bankhead
There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. – John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994