He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread and salt, on every inch of flesh and spirit.

The rich get richer and the poor get - children.

I hope you live a life you're proud of...

The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.