Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.

Sometimes other people have better ideas.

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.

After the war, photography came alive, in part because everybody started to use the 35mm camera, and worked on the street instead of in a studio, and that made an enormous difference in not only how photographs looked, but what they were about.

All my life I've felt like somebody's wife, or somebody's mother or somebody's daughter. Even all the time we were together, I never knew who I was. And that's why I had to go away. And in California, I think I found myself.

Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor.

Every since high school I've been drawn to magazines.