I want eternity. I was born for greater things.

I write because I cannot NOT write.

I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand...

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

When you're an older woman [in a movie] you tend to be in - how did you put it? You're the brunt of the joke.

I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.

The hour through which you are at present passing, the man whom you meet here and now, the task on which you are engaged at this very moment - these are always the most important in your whole life.

I have been to Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street but cannot get on the BBC. I am very disappointed because it boils down to snobbery.

Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

Jaguars, afterall, were fairly common, and so people were more respectful than afraid of them, just as they were of any other natural force.

Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.