Sometimes it is quite surprising, the emotional intensity of it. I was in NY one day, in Barnes and Noble, and I could see this woman following me around and after a bit I stopped and said 'Hello' and she just looked at me and said: “PLEASE LET EDITH BE HAPPY!”

You are my whole existence and I will love you until my last breath.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.

Sometimes it is quite surprising, the emotional intensity of it. I was in NY one day, in Barnes and Noble, and I could see this woman following me around and after a bit I stopped and said 'Hello' and she just looked at me and said: “PLEASE LET EDITH BE HAPPY!”

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?