Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.

People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.

It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.