Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink.

To have something which one particularly wants to do is more important than anything else. It is even more important than succeeding in that thing you want to do. In fact it does not matter if you fail, but it does matter that you do or do not want to do something.

It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

The good writer and the good actor are always searching for what is essential. It is a never-ending task because what is essential is always elusive and, therefore, fascinating.

it is extraordinary how much you are theirs, and how little they are yours. The child grows inside you and there is something mystical and mythical in that, but then you actually see that you are nothing more than the box in which they come. There is this total person, already formed, themselves.

Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink.