A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever.

I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.

One thing I hold against Americans is that they have no flair for the rain. They seem unsettled by it; it's against them: they take it as an assault, an inconvenience! But rain is so wonderfully cleansing, so refreshing, so calming...

Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.

Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.

All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.

Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.