Parades are man's attempt to make traffic exciting.
I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.
Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.
Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.
My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.
I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.
Any woman who marries an Italian must accept the undeniable fact that she has also married his mother.
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
It was a silver cow. But when I say 'cow', don't go running away with the idea of some decent, self-respecting cudster such as you may observe loading grass into itself in the nearest meadow. This was a sinister, leering, Underworld sort of animal, the kind that would spit out of the side of its mouth for twopence.
Why did someone fall in love with you because you are one thing and then want you to be something else?
The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.