It's so unfair that we should die, just because we are born.

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Children are like puppies: you have to keep them near you, and look after them, if you want their affection.

Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.

A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.

[To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you wherever you are.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.

We have to try to beat Everyone.

I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually say what we don't with a fair amount of specificity.

God’s love for the biggest sinner is greater than the love of the holiest man for God

Nobody will ever love you quite the way you want them to. You just have to let them do their best.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.

The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others.

The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election

The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.