It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

No vice is so bad as advice.

the human heart clings - even to its pain.

I have had a couple of marriages, but like every other woman I had a perfect right to them.

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

... the more you love what you do, the harder it is to do it well enough to get by yourself.

Never shall I forget those naked, clean-swept little Canadian towns, one just like the other. Before I was twelve years old, I must have lived in fifty of them.