Carrie Fisher

"Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity."

"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."

"It's a man's world and show business is a man's meal, with women generously sprinkled through it like overqualified spice."

"You were very serious,” her grandmother continued. “You had these big brown eyes and you were always going, ‘What’s that? What’s that?’ You wondered what everything was. You would frown and point a lot, like a conductor looking for your orchestra. You always seemed very busy, like you were between appointments all the time, but you were just a little child."

"Youth and beauty are not accomplishments. They're the temporary happy byproducts of time and/or DNA. Don't hold your breath for either."

"Unfortunately, it hurts all three of my feelings."

"Suzanne sat in Roger's chair, staring at the reflection of her dread morning face. Roger browsed his cassette rack. "Do you want calming or stimulating" he asked her. Suzanne mulled it over for a few moments. It was a question she had asked herself about men."

"There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed."

"I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."