I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the time, but now I've come to accept that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not show art.

Forgive me. I can no longer live with my nerves.

Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything.

I never knew until I came here to Hollywood that somebody could be really nice to you for years and really hate your guts. Happens all the time here.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

Read what you like, not what you're told to like. That way you'll read for a lifetime.

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

Bad promises are better broken than kept.

God bless you all with peace, tranquility and good will.

The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.

Strike the iron whilst it is hot.

To affirm is to make firm.

My passion comes from the heavens, not from earthly musings

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