To be contented—that’s for the cows.

I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere." I'm sure they usually feel nothing. They don't burst into tears or hysterics or joy or "I told you so." It's nothing. To be on the straight path isn't a bloody thing. It's just ordinary.

The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training.

Lighting is everything in a color.

The hottest thing in the world is to wear pants with stockings.

The future holds a golden world. It will be for beauty; it will be for intelligent productiveness.

You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.