Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.

Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print, but nothing in my destiny possesses the luminosity. I live among diffuse shadings, veiled mysteries, uncertainties; the tone of telling my life is closer to that of a portrait in sepia.

After fifty most of the bullshit is gone.

When a man's earning his living doing things he doesn't like, he feels like a slave; when he's doing what he loves, he feels like a prince.

There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.