I'm always in love. If it's not with a man, it's something else. I love beauty. I love the sky I see outside the window. There's so much beauty in the world.

I was fearless. Wild horses couldn't stop me.

When I was being photographed, I always felt very much in my own skin. That's probably one of the reasons why I enjoy being photographed.

When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.

I have a tremendous appetite for life; the phone rings and your whole life could change.