We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

We're all works of art in progress.

I didn't marry to have children. I married to have a relationship, and I was blessed with one child. I was an only child, too - my mother was smarter than most women today; she just had me.

I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you know, dignity.

My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard worker.

As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't full of personality, I was full of solitude and solemnity. I wasn't a cover-girl type.

I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.

There’s always a boyfriend... Whatever else I have to give up on, I won’t give up on love.

My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was taken by Norman Parkinson?

The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.

If you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair?

For the first time in a long time, I want more than I have.

Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.

Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt, ' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

The Divine is constantly waiting at your doorstep to move in if only you allow the necessary space.

If you want to be a Jewish state and you want to remain a democracy, you have to have a two-state solution.

You'll pay," she said stonily. "You won't be like this by this time tomorrow." "Bored and pissed off? God, I hope not.

I'm not stupid. I can tell what's what.

You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!