I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

The kiss became the narrowed center of the still point of the turning world, so that even the park was turning in comparison to the still peace at their lips.

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.

I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.

How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!