Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

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

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

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.

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

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

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