Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well.

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divorce in three seconds - don’t want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.