I know I have a fairly strong feminine side. I find myself really distanced from male behavior.

Failure's a natural part of life.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

That's easy, " Russell said. "Because everybody else in this here place is crooked as a dog's hind leg. ...

We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home

What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.

All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

I was a neophyte in another world [in 1954].

Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.

It's dizzying to think how huge the world is, or to realize how tiny you are

Out of many things a great heap will be formed. [Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.]

Nobody would put as little thought and effort into buying an automobile as they put into deciding who to elect as President of the United States.