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

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.

How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

Mr. Hitler was big on me. He kept writing and inviting me to come to Germany, and if the war hadn't started when it did, I would have gone and I would have taken a gun out of my purse and shot him, because I am the only person who would not have been searched.