On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.

Be a part of all that is decent and be an ambassador for the kind of world that you want to live in.

If you can instill a love of reading in your children, they will be ahead of the curve at school and in their lives in general. Their imaginations will be stimulated. I thank heavens for the father that gave me that to begin with.

You never feel lonely if you're writing, because you're living with all these characters in your head.

Richard Burton rang me up once and said, Do you know you're my only leading lady I've never slept with? I said, Well, please don't tell everybody, it's the worst image.

Of course, you can say it backwards, which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus, but that's going a bit too far, don't you think?

On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.