I was born with a fierce need for independence.
Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers.
The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
Morocco: Looks better in films.
I, personally, liked the legend.
What remains is solitude.
People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.
Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind.
It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.