A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.

In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?

On Becoming a 'Lady': What every mother wants her daughter to be.

Friendship is a precious gift that can't be bought or sold. It's value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you shall ask God for a gift be thankful if he sends not diamonds pearls or riches but the love and trust of friends. It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

...it gives you the impression that every day is Sunday.

Victory is gay only back home. Up front it is joyless.

[On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions.