Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

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 !

Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.

If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

Love is love, but marriage is an investment.