I don't like writers. They're dangerous people.

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

[When asked if she believed in "women's lib":] Not really. Not when I see what most of them look like.

I want to be left alone.

Why haven't I got a husband and children?" mused Greta Garbo to the Dutchess of Windsor, "I never met a man I could marry.

All alike, you men. You only want the satisfaction of being through with us first, that's all. So far I've had the good fortune of beating you to it. So I am heartless.

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.