What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?
Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.
I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.
A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.
Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.
I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.
