More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.

The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.

Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs.

I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle, who says she doesn't like blue.

After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

Love is someone you can be silly with

A poet is a silent singer

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

I think a few of my most visible roles are crazy or peppy girls, but I've played a lot of characters who are soldiers, or fighters, or meditative characters, and a lot of this stuff hasn't come out.

I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.

You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.

I had a turnover and three missed shots down the stretch. I just have to make sure I calm my nerves.

I have a really grounded group of friends, and they like me no matter what. I think it's really important to know who your real friends are.

Listen more than you talk.

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

Brain so good could've sworn you went to college