"The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity."

"There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in."

"I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage."

"From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings."

"I didn't want to be this four-chord acoustic singer songwriter because that stuff just got so old to me."

"When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit."

"Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom."

"All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent."