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

I only said, 'I want to be left alone.'

I was always sad as a child, for as long as I can think back. I hated crowds of people, and used to sit in a corner by myself, just thinking.

Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary biological process-or, shall we say, chemical-process ... a lot of nonsense is talked and written about it.

I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself.

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

It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.