She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world.

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

The Welsh are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or plastic art, no architecture, no drama. They just sing. Sing and blow down wind instruments of plated silver.

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.