[When asked how many husbands she'd had:] Two of my own, my dear, and several of my friends'.

Too late! The two saddest words in any tongue.

[On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all the Russias.

[On Nijinksy:] Ah, he took my breath away! The body that man had, the controlled power, the iron fragility. He was a note of music. He was dance!

Lazy people always work harder than anyone else; they're so eager to get through and lie down again.

I always loved being with older people. Now they're so difficult to find.

I've always burned my bridges before me.

Facts do not lie within biased opinions.

A revolution is taking place within her, as though a lifetime's experience could be outdistanced in the span of a conversation.

She really wants to be my friend, I realize, and suddenly I feel very sorry for her. She doesn't know what a terrible thing it is she's asking for.

Government can take your money at gunpoint; businesses have to persuade you.

Actually, when I was little I even dreamed about riding a black cat.

It takes the same energy to complain as it does to compliment. When there is a short circuit, there is a complaint, and when the energy is flowing, there is a compliment.

I never ever took my career seriously.

I have a sense that South Africa is my other country apart from my native country that I particularly love, [that I] want to see succeed, and I did really want my message to be listened to.

American Sniper focuses on a soldier with 160 kills, or as Harvey Weinstein calls it, a slow morning.

So. You’re saying my sister’s dressed like a prostitute