About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

I never wake up in the morning and wonder why I am here. I wake up and wonder why I am not making here better.

Men do not fear swords...they fear monsters.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

We came to see Jace. Is he alright?" "I don't know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?

A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't.

Rudeness is something I just can't tolerate.

Pakistan was once called the most allied ally of the United States. We are now the most non-allied.