I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.

And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'

Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house by themselves.

One doesn't know if one had a happy childhood or not. I don't really know what it means.

Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway.

I think probably when I was little, after my brother turned on me, I just had to play by myself or with myself. I've always done that. I think either it's some kind of weirdly competitive streak or it takes my mind off whatever's bothering me.

My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.