The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.

When I'm traveling to promote my book, I feel like an artful impostor. What I really am is when I'm in my (painter's) studio and when I'm writing. With actors, it's the same thing. They're kind of artful impostors in public. When you get to know them, they're different people.

Sinatra created a kind of magic. You want those people to be part of your life.

I think something wonderful is going to happen to me. Maybe tomorrow. The phone can ring and your whole life can change.

I'll always remain friends with men I've been in love with. Each one gave me so much, in so many ways.

I'm a ham. I always like to answer spontaneously.

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.