[On Orson Welles:] When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that's been watered.

The air and the sky seem to have been freshly washed and polished, and the people too.

Grumbling is the death of love

Every human being is in need of talking to somebody. In this country nobody has time. It seems that talking to a friend has gone out of style. Now you have to pay money to go to an analyst.

What remains is solitude.

For women, beauty is more important than the mind, because the man is easier to watch than to think.

Glamour is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way, mentally and physically and in appearance, and that, whatever the occasion or the situation, you are equal to it.