I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity.

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.

I'm a much worse guest than I am a host, and I'm not an awfully good host either. I really like being alone.

I'm a born - again atheist.

A good deed never goes unpunished.

In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a way that those who live in rackety developments can never hope to be. Not even the lust of a Lord Byron could survive the fact of Levittown.