People who think about the past have no future.

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.

One of the nicest things about living in America is the fact that sooner or later you are practically bound to get an award of some sort or other.

What Americans call cross-ventilation, the English call draughts.

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

She never sets foot out of her apartment or her past.

[When asked if her husband was still living:] It's a matter of opinion.

There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.

I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract.

My worst fault is my belief that if you put bills unopened behind a picture frame, there is no need to pay them.

Stories are a different kind of true.

You don’t get to rewind your life like a tape and splice it back together, pretending it never knotted and tore, when it did and you know it did.

Any anger I feel vanishes. What is left cannot be described. It is guilt piled onto emptiness and set afire.

He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.

I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.

Hurry," she breathed. Man, talk about pressure. He was supposed to get it up while demon hordes were trying to kill him, and Satan himself was knocking at the door.

There is no amount of money, time or energy too great to spend on our children. They are our angels, our future. In failing them, we are failing ourselves.

Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.

If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer.