When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.

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.

I was alone, without a single cent, in an unknown country. If I'd learned anything from last year's ill-fated adventures, though, it was not to get overwhelmed by minor inconveniences.

In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.

I had a little dog and my dog was very small....Of all the treasures that were mine, I loved him most of all.

It's unfortunate that in an interview sometimes things can seem so black and white.

The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.

Don’t answer to sick, or broke, or worn out any longer.

Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

I don't do the things other people call "play."

I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see.

Why do those people guess so much and shave so little, and are so disdainful of hearing aids?