A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.

And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

Hardships and handicaps can...stimulate our energy to survive them. You'll find if you study the lives of people who've accomplished things, it's often been done with the help of great willpower in overcoming this and that.

I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.

The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.