The higher the building the lower the morals.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Work is much more fun than fun.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

Annie Taliaferro had that hammerhead look about her, like a breachy range cow, or a bunch-quitting steer.

If you look for the beautiful, for a solution, for the positive, then you've won at life.

I have stared into the light and you are all my shadows.

In life, never lose hope that you are nearing a dead end, Only when you reach the end of the road you realize a road to its left and to its right.

A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

I don't like differentiating between art and commercial cinema.

I think the last thing I want to do is switch doctors.

The first few months of my life of every year are in total retreat. I don't see anybody except my husband and my dog, I don't talk to anybody, and I just write.

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.