"Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself—like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."

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“You can't sleep until noon with the proper élan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three .”

“The most important thing about me is that I am a Catholic. It's a superstructure within which you can work, like a sonnet.”

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“I will read anything rather than work.”

“Children are different—mentally, physically, spiritually, quantitatively, qualitatively; and furthermore, they're all a little bit nuts.”

“Movie actors are just ordinary mixed-up people—with agents.”

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