I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.

I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable.

There is really no practical help that one can offer: it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own conviction, or working with one's own work; your style is what seems natural to you. It is a long process of discovery, one that never ends. I am working at it, and will be as long as I live.

But I know what I like.' She smiled, and et the cat drop to the floor. 'It's like Tiffany's,'she said. 'Not that I give a hoot about jewellery. Diamonds, yes. But it's tacky to wear diamonds before you're forty; and even that's risky.

I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.