Marriage still means a lot more in the country I come from than it does here. I don't think there's anything to be gained by it for the couple. But for children I think it's an important thing.

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.

Change is a stranger you have yet to know.

Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.

People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Writers don't get mad they get even in their novels.

Do not pay attention to my cousins. Every family needs a couple idiots and we keep them around for entertainment.

Wherever God has given faith, it is given, among other reasons, for the very purpose of being tried.

Nearly all Bolshevist agitators in Germany and elsewhere were Jews.

The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."

Isolation breeds conceit.

My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world.

I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.

This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor.