No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.

We all look good for our age. Except for our necks.

in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.

It's always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have an infinite capacity to be shocked.

What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.

We weren't meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them. We weren't meant to have politics, or careers that mattered, or opinions, or lives; we were meant to marry them. If you wanted to be an architect, you married an architect.

Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.