“I saw what a mess a lot of people could make of their lives when they're smitten. Some of them go temporarily insane. They find a person who they think holds the key to their happiness-the only key to their happiness... My work has always been my greatest happiness”

“Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?”

“I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.”

“When women go wrong, men go right after them.”

“I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.”

“Sometimes when I see a bad performance and people still clap... I wonder if they're clapping because they liked what they saw or because they're happy it's over?”

“I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.”