All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.

I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.

When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.

Sometimes there is a great intimacy between women without any homosexuality. This is something that men are less likely to understand, because for them sensuality means sexual. It doesn't excite us to imagine two men together.

I've been related to everything. Even the production; I knew how much it cost, I knew where the money went. It didn't last long, because hierarchy came back again.

I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.