while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.

I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life.

[On refusing to allow photos to be published of herself and her children:] A lady's name should appear in print only three times, at her birth, marriage, and death.

Expose human ties for what they really are and you are most likely to find the worst forms of betrayal staring back at you.

Her unusual dark hair and sultry eyes made her stand out--- Anne Boleyn was Tudor England's Angelina Jolie amid a sea of Reese Witherspoons.

Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.

A reformer should be exempt from the suspicion of interest, and he must possess the confidence and esteem of those whom he proposes to reclaim.

I am not bored at all. I am not bored in the least.

Once you do have a child you want to talk about every detail of it. And it is really boring to all your friends and it should be.

Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.

I imagine that people see me as they would see me if I were the man that I want to be.

Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.

In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen.