Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

Learn from the best, so one day you can become the best.

We will go on producing myths, ways of explaining ourselves to ourselves but, like everything else about us, they are in constant transition and we must not fundamentalise any of them.

Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful

The only thing people are interested in is people.

I was always a fan of Nic. With his movie, you know it's "A Nic Refn Movie."

I have always maintained the importance of Aunts

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

Good shoulders and a long waist are the most necessary when it comes to wearing clothes.

I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.