How could I resent being labeled a has-been when I am placed in the same division as a junior miss of 15? Junior Miss is the title of the picture I am shortly to produce. Many of my friends complimented me and there were some who even said I looked like Shirley Temple's sister. Now tell me: after that would I think of suing Life? It never entered my head.
Anybody who knows our history knows that we went through all hell together - through miscarriages and terrible times.
I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method in investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.
There's nothing like the feeling of knowing that you've made a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.
When real music comes to me, the music of the spheres, the music that surpasses understanding, that has nothing to do with me, cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium... those moments are what I live for.
Sometimes its good to come back when you least expect to.
Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.