The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.

I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

[I have a] fondness for telling stories, like the Arab storytellers on the marketplace. ... I will never grow tired of [telling] stories [and] I make the mistake of thinking that everyone has the same enthusiasm!

It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.

We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.