You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

When I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away. Eventually I ran far away. It was to a place called France. Many of you have been there, and many have not. But I must tell you, ladies and gentlemen, in that country I never feared. It was like a fairyland place.

Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?

Sex was a pleasurable form of exercise, like dancing.

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.

Art is an elastic sort of love.