It's interesting that there are places that words can't get to.

I was dyslexic as a child and it took me years to get passed that. I read a lot but it was hard and that didn't go away until my early-to-mid-twenties. So really what I was looking at were the photographs and the illustrations in magazines.

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

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.

In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.

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.

The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.