A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

I think I was born stubborn, that's all.

Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.

I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.

Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience.

Don't forget to duck!

[Hollywood] always sounds glamorous when you're young.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Don’t be too stereotyped, be ready to explore new opportunities

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

If we take judging ourselves and others out of our life, we will mostly be living in paradise.

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

I mean I have had a very combative relationship with critics because I'm very impatient with people that don't give my work the respect I feel it deserves.

When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen, which allowed me to write, more or less anything.

If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.

I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self