"The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent."

"As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask."

"In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead."

"Man always dies before he is fully born."

"Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me."

"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

"To master the mind is to understand that the simplest acts of love resonate the loudest."

"Those whom we can love, we can hate to others we are indifferent."