Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs.

I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle, who says she doesn't like blue.

The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill)

A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.