I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.