When I'm scared - and I'm always scared when I have to face an audience, when I have to read a review, when I publish a book...then, I think of my grandfather. My grandfather was this strong, tough Basque who would never bend....What would he do? Well, he would go ahead, close his eyes, and drive forward. You do it and the spirit that is within you....is there.

I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.

It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.

You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.

Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.

He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.

Sex is the instrument and love the music.