Love is a worn-out word. People love their cat, they love their house. I've never been in love with anyone but myself.

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.

People who think about the past have no future.

One of the nicest things about living in America is the fact that sooner or later you are practically bound to get an award of some sort or other.

What Americans call cross-ventilation, the English call draughts.

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

She never sets foot out of her apartment or her past.

[When asked if her husband was still living:] It's a matter of opinion.

There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.

I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract.

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

It is difficult to be patient but to waste the rewards of patience is worse.

People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.

I'd rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent.

Private citizens and companies are always seen as evil and greedy, because they want to profit. But the government picks your pocket any chance it can get, but they're never called greedy.

O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine!

Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting" .

I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.