That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.

I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.

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.

I have no patience with women who measure and weigh their love like a country doctor dispensing capsules. If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

No vice is so bad as advice.

Only a few things are really important.

the human heart clings - even to its pain.