If, for instance, we'd made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it. We didn't have to do any alterations for Broadway. I was supposed to go a fortnight before it opened to alter anything that was necessary and there was nothing really.

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the characters in their books. Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.

God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, "Can I be excused the Crucifixion?" No!

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.