To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.

I'm pretty equal opportunity when it comes to issues to joke about.

Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.

Be ruthless about protecting writing days.

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.

I think that glamour is about confidence. I think however somebody feels beautiful, that's glamour.

If I have a weakness, it's that I try to live by the rules. I try to live by the rules, no matter what they are, and I was brought up that way as a kid. Play by the rules.

I have to feel what I'm writing, right down to the core.