Sex just as a drive, as a hormonal drive, is not very interesting.

If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.

I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !

Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.

It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.