I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people.

You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.

There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

Getting old is not for sissies.

Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

If everyone likes you, you're not doing it right.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Remind me, Lord, of why I create things and that YOU ... you are the best of artists, put these gifts in me to share with the world.

To attain to enlightenment is to attain to all. When you are not, you become the whole.

The poor stay poor here because they do not save enough.

Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration in which the price is literary survival or canonical inclusion.

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.

For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there.

Call me Buffy. I’m even blond, but don’t ask me to wear a halter top. Or corset.

Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.

Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.