I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them.

Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watchtower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.

You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside.