I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.

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.

When black fury meets white denial, you have the combustible and fundamentally changed race relations we live in today.

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.

Not mass production but production by the masses.

What is the greatest deficiency among human Chrsitians? They have an inadequate view of human suffering.

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

I'm about fifty years behind as far as my preferences go and I must say that the poets who excite me most are the Americans. There are very few contemporary English poets that I admire.

In general, I think I'm a very private person. But I also love human beings.

As long as one accepts "time" tacitly as such he is dreaming a dream, not living a life.

Reality is not what it used to be.