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

I don’t like to talk to people, because I can’t express myself satisfactorily. I don’t say the things I mean.

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.

Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.

I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.

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.

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