When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.

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.

The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes.

Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.

Be careful what you ask of Heaven; it might be granted.