I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult.

You were just a young girl not wanting to let on that death could happen to one who hadn't even lived yet.

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

I can't wait for my little sisters to start dating, because it will really be fun to pick on their boyfriends.

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

To make [parents] happy, I went to Fordham University for three weeks, while at the same time running ads in Variety, "magician-actor David Copperfield."

Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.

The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things.

I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

People are messy; therefore, relationships will be messy. Don't be surprised by messiness.