I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.

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 anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?

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

If you have health, you have everything.

I do spend money. I like to spend money, on houses - on furnishing houses. And I love to give presents to people. It's just in my nature to be that way. I always spent money I had. And I always spent what I made. I'm not stingy.

One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.