I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

Fashion may not be a weapon of the woman but at least it gives her the ammunition.

When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life.

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can't, I'll stick to animals.

I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.

The outcome of insane parents is either a murderer or an intellectual.

I like to think I’ve written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.

I have never been one to fall when I can jump.

I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.

SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

Magic is something that seems like it goes against how the world works and its us magicians job to be doing that.

I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are.