[When asked if she believed in "women's lib":] Not really. Not when I see what most of them look like.

I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.

There is no one who would have me - I can't cook.

Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.

You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.

If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.

I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored!

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

You do have a tendency to severe spinal cords.""Only for you.

One of the great things silence does, it gives us a new concept of God.

Bills should be paid cheerfully, all money should be sent forth fearlessly and with a blessing.

If I wasn't a musician, I would be a serial killer.

If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

Come on boys, you must listen unto me, lay off the whiskey and let that cocaine be.

Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn't give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.

I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.