Oh dear me - it's too late to do anything but accept you and love you - but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once!

Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.

I do not really care what people do as long as they do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.

People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.

[Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments.

Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

I have laid my cheek upon the earth and felt it my mother's bosom.

Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears.

Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.

I'm not interested in making clothes that are not accessible.

No trilogy should have more than four books.

A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat.

I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. But I think you kind of have to be.

There’s so much negativity in the world and what you only need to hear is all the love.

In my 90-plus years, I have lived a multitude of lives.

Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.

Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.

Be wary of listening to stories secondhand.

You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: wy not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?