You have money, fame, youth, beauty, talent. That's a good start... for feeling good.

What were the bodies like on the beach? Ugly and white and ruined by offices.

Every heart to Love will come, but like a refugee

I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events.

Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that.

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had to have written one word that I didn't want to write, to be able to have satisfied that dictum I set for myself, which was not to work for pay, but to be paid for my work - just to be able to satisfy those standards that I set for myself has been an enormous privilege.