When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

Fashion may not be a weapon of the woman but at least it gives her the ammunition.

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can't, I'll stick to animals.

I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

It gets kind of zen after awhile, life is a journey, time is a river, the door is ajar.

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

Honour and profit lie not in one sacke. [Honour and profit lie not in one sack.]

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

It is perhaps true that that sort of sexual energy wanes over time - as the original impetus loses its luster. And then, I suppose, it's on to the next thing. But eros is eternal, like joy.

Isaac Hayes told me once, 'There's no such thing as old-school. Either you went to school or you didn't.'

If you do not transform your pain, you will always transmit it.

O happy dogs of England, Bark well at errand boys, If you lived anywhere else, You would not be allowed to make such an infernal noise.