Without the Blessed Sacrament a position like mine would be intolerable.

I would not be cured if the price of the cure was that I must leave the island and give up my work I am perfectly resigned to my lot. Do not feel sorry for me.

Turn all your thoughts and aspirations to heaven. Work hard to secure for yourself a place there for ever.

I make myself a leper with the lepers to gain all to Jesus Christ.

I am not sure I trust you.""You can trust me with your life, My King.""But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.

Our compassion, spirituality, and appreciation of beauty provide us with the capacity to love.

Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.

But, for myself, the Earth’s records had taught me to look for widest ruin as the price of highest civilization.

I was never the diplomatic diplomat.

You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.

Marilyn Monroe to me is the epitome of glamour, and always has been since I was a kid.

Remember the guy in the 80s walking around with a boombox on his shoulder? Why'd he do that? Because it told a story about who he was. Expressing yourself is big business.

I literally designed and built the sets myself, and I kind of liked it. I always gave myself eight weeks to do that - sometimes even 10 - and the shooting took five or six weeks.

I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.