I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came.

East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

My first husband, yes, I eloped with him from Hungary against my mother's wishes.

If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.

Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.

I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick with it.

The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.

I learned early that you only have so much energy to give. You have to spend it correctly.

There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.

All any girl needs, at any time in history, is simple velvet and basic diamonds.

The first thing I understand is pain.

If there's a God why are there such things as famine and The Jerry Springer Show.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds.

If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that's not it.

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.

We all know our ideas can be crazy, but are they crazy enough?

They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.

Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.