"The score never interested me, only the..." - Quote by Mae West

“Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.”

“Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.”

“I’ve been things and I've seen places.”

“The words come. Usually, it's a long time before they come. And then when they start to come, it doesn't take so long for it to be finished. It takes a long time to begin. And then it sort of gets finished.”

“The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day ... you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don't think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.”

“I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.”

“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.”

“Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.”

“So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.”