How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

In memory Venice is always magic.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

The best work is a fusion of love and praise.

I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.