If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.

Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.

Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life.

Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.