Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.

You should never trust anyone who listens to Mahler before they're forty.

His pear-shaped head, I could now see, was situated on top of a pear-shaped body, which his black gown caused to resemble a piece of fruit going to a funeral.

Freedom and diversity guard each other, and if a country could form the whole of one's character, Napoleon III and Victor Hugo would have been the same person... if national identity means anything, it means something that comes with you wherever you go, and stays with you no matter how long you stay away.

Almost 70 years have gone by, and I've still got that feeling when I write... Writing, for me, is still it. It has always been the basis of everything I do. I'm a writer who performs, not a performer who writes. I love the act of writing. It's still a thrill for me.

Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.

If an artist is any good at all, then he or she will have a later phase that's more interesting than the early one.