Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away.

Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.

There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as they had lived, with style and grace and their proper eccentricity; and Paris loves anybody who can live anarchically and be delightful entertainment at the same time. So do I.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.