I was not cut out to be a rebel.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

...-the two look at each other - one full of guilt - other full of pain - both full of unhappiness.

Man is free Woyzeck. Man is the ultimate expression of the individual urge to freedom.

The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.

I think everything in my life has led to my animal welfare work.

The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.

With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone.

What the mind cab conceive, it can achieve

On my recent trip to the Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in California told me they have arrested the same coyotes 20 times, but they are not prosecuted.

Ive always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I always keep more than one thing going.

I haven't always recruited for the best talent. I've taken a few guys who would fit for different reasons. Leadership. Toughness