I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . . . But-incongruous as it may seem to some-I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.

I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.