Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.

Eating is never so simple as hunger.

Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.

I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?

The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.

You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.