June 18, 2025

The key to building a superstar is to keep their mouth shut. To reveal an artist to the people can be to destroy him.

…see how sensitive the citizens become: they chafe impatiently at the least touch of authority and at length

[On hearing Lady Mountbatten’s anti-monarchical views] How easy it seems for a semi-royal millionnairess, who has exhausted all the pleasures of money and position, to turn almost Communist!